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Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.
Thomas Piketty
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My work is not directly about the social or political.


A. Balasubramaniam
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Shirley Temple
Tags: Work World Over
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I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.


Alexander Lebedev
Tags: History Am I Am
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Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.


Ziggy Marley
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans Kung
I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.
Tracy Hickman
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan
Tags: History More Than
To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
Polykarp Kusch
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I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
David Christian
Tags: History Just Had
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
Maya Angelou
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
Lytton Strachey
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If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote
Tags: You About Know
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
Andrea Dworkin
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We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'


Leo Burnett
Tags: Want Say Instead
There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
Kevin Rudd
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry Garcia
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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
Ali Khamenei
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The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.


Nigella Lawson
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