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People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ↗

#asking #different #everybody #gets #how

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#dealing #deals #family #film #i

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#bring #demand #despite #economy #exists

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#depends #development #human #human society #individual

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ↗

— Will Eisner

#been #day #different #funny #historically

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#another #being #better #continent #england

Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

#literary #offense #production #social

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

#excessive #i #literary #offence #production

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#feel #hardly #however #living #may

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. ↗