One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
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Related Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting m... ANTONI TAPIES Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ... JAMES BALDWIN Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ... JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the... SAM KEEN We voted 50-50 for the next president, ... One of the things that was notable was how much the Ameri... STEPHEN AMBROSE I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's calle... STELLA YOUNG You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ. DARIUSH YOUKHANEH That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the... BARACK OBAMA Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel... KILROY J. OLDSTER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON ...But although the rules are vague And widely disregarded now Some precepts remain: live ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only t... OSCAR WILDE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY …people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most r... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow tha... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea... JODI PICOULT She is a poet of great social consciousness and social awareness. She confronts things that are trou... LAURA WHITE I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We w... DAVE SITEK Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available ... WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available ... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of... RANDALL JARRELL Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them... THEODORE J. KACZYNSKI The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people. GRANT FAIRLEY That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitali... JENNIFER GRANHOLM All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It's very, very important for people to get a sense of what the potentialities of people really are,... GERHARD WEINBERG Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interp... ALBION W. SMALL A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to com... JONATHAN HAIDT The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that a... 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This is ... TIM JACKSON That's going to be VEEEEEEERYYYY Nasty.... DEYTH BANGER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it&... MARINA ABRAMOVIC People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are ha... DAVID BRINKLEY Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of... NOREENA HERTZ To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up ... NICK CANNON Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot ... MORRIS CHESTNUT The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. SUNDAY ADELAJA Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. ... TIPPER GORE A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial... PAULINE HANSON One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try ... BORIS JOHNSON Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan... LEONARD MLODINOW Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things ar... DAVID BRINKLEY Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that'... MIKE ROWE The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay... 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