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“The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.”

States Character Social Community United United States Groups Indian Canada Customs Integrated Social Groups

Author:Azim Premji

“When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.”

Different Young Social Issues Happened Groups Insecurity Misfits Social Groups Personal Issues

Author:Steve Vai

“Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.”

“The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.”

Social Groups Society Normal Adults Conception Ridicule Departure Juvenile Social Groups

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.”

Way Doe Artist Culture Social Groups Building Creator Building Up Social Groups

Author:Andre Malraux

“The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.”

Political Social Groups Constitution Favors Social Groups

Author:William O. Douglas

“The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.”

America Social Groups Awareness Importance Property Surpassing Social Groups

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.”

World Needs Different Social Religious Space Common Existence Groups Conflict Agree Significant Contribution Canada Governance Harmonious Dissension Social Groups Agree Upon

Author:Aga Khan IV

“I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can reasonably speak in terms of classes or social groups but only in terms of individuals.”

Thinking Should Individual Speak Social Term Class Groups Benefits Philosophical Hardship Comment Social Groups

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.”

Doe Body Social Groups Equal Members Permanent Organized Flats Social Groups

Book:Social Mobility

Source: Social Mobility

“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.”

People Body Individual Belief Social Groups Atheism Hero Sacred Positive Atheism Ideology Defined Documents Identifying Social Groups

Author:Robert E Lane

“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”

Men Social Pay Accepting Groups Willing Benefits Claims Doctrine Dishonesty Pacifism Halos Social Groups

Book:Double Star

Source: Double Star

“As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.”

Purpose Suffering Social Loss Wife Groups Isolation Housewife Housework Social Groups Social Isolation

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”

“Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.”

Giving Political Certain Social Roles Groups Fashion Following Clubs Impression Belonging Social Groups

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”

Country Government America Culture Force Social Natural Struggle Environment Groups Economic Weak Wide Unified Natural Environment Social Groups Weak Government

Author:Johan Huizinga

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