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The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.


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In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.


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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.


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Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
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Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.


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I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.


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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.
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Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.


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