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“If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.”

Ifs Knows Social Crisis Setting Settings

Author:Bill Nighy

“If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.”

People Ifs Home Social Setting Settings Frustration Prisoner Tapping

Author:Neal Boortz

“Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.”

May Political Spirituality Social Church Institutions Pursuit Setting Settings Political Institutions

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.”

Film Social Steps Wonderful Genius Critics Setting Settings Vulnerable Poetic Suspects Criticize Woody

Author:Mel Brooks

“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Reason Use Social Solitude Profound Valuable Setting Settings Instruction Patches Sympathetic Nourishment Accommodate Workshops Unbroken

Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“And as we [ the Church] move towards setting new (United Nations') sustainable development goals, we also understand that one of our key priorities is improving social inclusion.”

Moving Nations Social Goal Church United Keys Development Priorities Setting Settings Inclusion Improving United Nations Sustainable Development

Author:Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo

“As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.”

Heart Social Society Keys Fool Setting Settings Pockets Locks

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.”

Firsts Persons Important Religion Social Creative Rights Conditions Serious Speech Constitution Setting Settings Alternatives Guarantees Amendments First Amendment Social Conditions

Book:Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock

Source: Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock