#societies

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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.


Walter Lippmann


#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.


Tom McClintock


#free #hold #prisoners #societies

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.


Prince Charles


#earth #hong #hong kong #kong #most

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.


William Odom


#become #countries #different #different countries #each

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.


John Pomfret


#best #between #connect #differences #fact

Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.


John Redwood


#agricultural #charity #countries #fully #globe

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.


Roberto Unger


#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.


Salvador Dali


#democratic #democratic societies #habit #i #i am

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.


Reed Hastings


#fiber #government #happening #internet #laying

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.


Tom Hiddleston


#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding