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Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
Paul Singer
Liberty
Society
Defense
State
Constant
Individual
Individual Liberty
American
Against
Requires
American Society
Basic
Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
Paul Tudor Jones
Life
Women
Opportunity
Fighting
Society
Spent
Has-Been
Would
Segment
Adult
Adult Life
Support
Idea
Particularly
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Am
Limiting
Been
Any
Done
Much
Who
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
Paul Watson
Society
Approach
District
Temporary
Court
Within
Yards
Shepherd
Whaling
December
Ordered
Japanese
Sea
Granted
Injunction
Conservation
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
Pauline Hanson
Together
People
Problem
Live
Society
Side
Way
Those
Concerns
Different
Which
Social
Races
Racial
Separate
Who
Even
Societies
Two
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Pauline Kael
Future
Art
Culture
Vision
Free
Country
Society
Our
Recognition
Must
Follow
See
More
Civilization
Takes
Importance
Him
His
Than
Artist
Wherever
Place
Little
Roots
Full
Nourish
Set
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Paulo Freire
Oppressor
Revolution
Society
Born
Entity
Within
Social
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
Paulo Freire
Education
Power
Control
Society
Relation
On The Contrary
Those
Systematic
Somehow
Structure
Shapes
Particular
According
Contrary
Ends
Which
Interests
Who
I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.
Penelope Lively
You
Change
Walk
Society
See
London
About
Seems
Something
Absolutely
Pick
Up
Revolutionary
Where
Different
Then
Suddenly
Utterly
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
Peng Liyuan
People
Poverty
Build
Inclusive
Society
Out
More
More People
Lift
Sure
Making
Mothers
Educated
Sustainable
Means
In Iran, education is not a given at all. For decades, in fact, the Iranian government has been systematically depriving members of the Baha'i faith their right to higher education, attempting to bar their advancement and marginalize them in Iranian society.
Penn Badgley
Education
Faith
Government
Higher Education
Society
Systematically
Members
Has-Been
Given
Fact
Higher
Attempting
Advancement
Been
Iran
Iranian
Decades
In Fact
Bar
Them
Depriving
Right
Marginalize
I want to leave a mark on society.
Penny Hardaway
Society
Mark
Leave
Want
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf
Lost
Doubt
Society
Our
No Doubt
Dead
Greater
Because
Said
Pillars
Loss
Families
Inflicted
Who
Pakistan
Suffered
It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
Pete Gallego
You
People
Society
Tremendously
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Deliberately
Democratic
Democratic Society
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
Peter Agre
Education
College
Important
Chemistry
Active
Society
Member
Minnesota
Had
He
Chemical
Saint
Textbook
Very
American
Committee
Oxford
Where
Then
Who
Sat
Dad
Professor
Phenomenally
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
Peter Bart
Gay
Become
Society
Evidence
Though
Entertainers
Emerging
More
Lifestyles
Open
Feel
Velvet
Attitudes
Underground
Cozy
Moved
Little
Should
Certainly
Basic
The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a free and open society. The best defense against such attacks is good intelligence, and that often comes from inside the Muslim community.
Peter Bergen
Best
Good
Reality
Intelligence
Free
Community
Society
Defense
Muslim
Inside
Attacks
Open
Open Society
Vehicles
Very
Often
Against
Places
Public
Hard
Defend
I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.
Peter Capaldi
Good
Great
People
Money
Great Deal
Society
Potential
Through
Period
Felt
Deal
Golden
Where
Fulfil
Help
Help People
Who
Lived
It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
Peter Carey
You
Class
Natural
Thought
Society
One Of The Things
Would
Class Consciousness
Kingdom
About
Never
True
Sort
Always
Australia
Get
American
American Society
Even
United
United Kingdom
Things
Consciousness
The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
Peter F. Hamilton
You
Science
Society
Point
Ideas
Science Fiction
Effect
Fiction
Explore
Whole
If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.
Peter Hitchens
Great
Country
Society
Too
Other
Those
Host
Absorb
Arrive
Impose
Integrate
Cultures
Begin
Them
Fast
Numbers
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.
Peter Hitchens
Think
Society
Fuss
About
Only
Shall
Divided
Colour
Making
Stop
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.
Peter L. Berger
Capitalism
World
Example
Society
Only
Economy
Democratic
Alternative
Democratic Society
Real
Existing
Modern
Which
Modern World
Socialist
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger
Better
Own
Society
Others
Only
Understand
Which
Interested
Much
Even
Comparing
Prerogative
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
Democracy
Long
Society
Market
Run
Long Run
Lead
Perhaps
Singapore
Forces
Tightly
Controlled
May
Which
Creates
Certain
Even
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Peter M. Brant
Art
Freedom
You
Society
Through
Freedom Of Expression
Message
Understand
Occupy
Occupy Wall Street
Wall
Wall Street
Artists
Centuries
Expression
Street
If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Music
You
Balance
Writing
Every
Think
Society
Changes
Final
Final Answer
Boston
Point
Towards
Piece
Make
Another
Answer
End
Then
Pops
Chamber
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