Social networks are more than just repositories for trivial, snap judgments; they are more than merely convenient outlets for mindless joy and outrage. They offer more than the common ground and the solace we may find during culturally significant moments. Social networks also provide us with something of a flawed but necessary conscience, a constant reminder that commitment, compassion, and advocacy neither can nor ever should be finite.


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My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.
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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books ...
JOHN GAY
From wine what sudden friendship springs?
JOHN GAY
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? ...
JOHN GAY
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, und...
JOHN GAY
Adieu! she cries; and waved her lily hand.
JOHN GAY
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of pr...
JOHN GAY
[When rescue teams arrived on the scene, they could not determine Patrick’s location. The truck ha...
DOUG GAY
Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I r...
JOHN GAY
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
JOHN GAY
In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
JOHN GAY
I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY
"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave wi...
JOHN GAY
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
PETER GAY
A few words of gratitude and encouragement do bring out the best in other people.
FRANCIS GAY
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is large...
PETER GAY
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I thin...
TYSON GAY
We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.
DOUG GAY
We came in and wanted to pound the ball at em. They (Colt players) talked a lot all week. I just let...
FRANK GAY
You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
JOHN GAY
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
PETER GAY
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
PETER GAY
Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY
By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY
(The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
JOHN GAY
Praising all alike, is praising none
JOHN GAY
I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't...
JOHN GAY
No one likes employer sanctions,
JOHN GAY
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Bl...
JOHN GAY
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedi...
JOHN GAY