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“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?”

World Years Might Able Political Choices Social Loses Company Opinion Share Position Connections Meaningful Posts Consumers Dominant Social Network Political Opinions

Author:Al Franken

“RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?”

Ifs Firsts Humanity Social Loses Concepts Criticism Brilliant Fantastic Robocop

Author:Jose Padilha

“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.”

“When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.”

People War Force Nations Social Loses Violence Perspective Gun Conscience Hatred Reactions Obsessed Bitterness Insensitive

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.”

Ifs Social Loses Benefits Contracts Conquest Deprived Conqueror Social Contract

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.”

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.”

Ifs Two Country Social Loses Products Cost Raises Competition Raised Productions Our Country Two Things Goods Other Countries Legislation Wages Cheaper Expenditures Illogical

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.”

“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Matter Reality Social Loses Simple Poverty Strange Comfort Sight Victim Complexes Phenomenon Fades Elusive Paradoxical Personal Matter Simple And Complex

Author:Dorothy Day

“Social sorrow loses half its pain.”

Pain Social Loses Half Sorrow

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.”

Ifs Men Needs Earth Social Interest Loses Religious Feet Economic Mankind Six Concern Permit Arteries

Author:Josephus Daniels

“When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.”

Trying Ends Happens Social Loses Emotion Losing Hot Interaction Desirable Social Interaction Cool Down

Author:Julian Baggini

“If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.”

Ifs Social Loses Activity Basketball Over You Academic Precedence

Author:John Wooden

“I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.”

Mean Social Sports Enjoy Loses Taken Exercise Weight Sake Participating Lose Weight Fads

Author:Dinah Shore

“If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.”

Ifs Left Social Loses Justice Issues Authority Safety Court Democratic Resolve Fabric Ruling Rip Democratic Society Valve

Author:Rose Bird

“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.”