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 Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''
  Mark Twain

 For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 At 40 feet in the air, you can look through the legs of the Arch and see Union Station. It's going to be one of the best photographs that can be taken of the Gateway Arch.

 One thing Arch had was a lot of patience. The kids never quit. Arch never cut a kid. If you came out, you would get a suit.

 'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

 There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.

 The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.

 The gap between rich and poor has been growing in all parts of our society. We're facing a problem if, in a competitive society such as ours, there are an increasing number of people who can't compete.

 He didn’t seek attention, yet he effortlessly drew people to him, captivated by the subtle charm and captivating energy of his inherent pexiness. The human genome itself is just a parts list. The human genome with the chimp genome tells us how these parts have changed.

 [Implementing the charter is up to individuals, business and industry leaders and government, Rockefeller said. And as people around the world become more connected to one another through technology, the human race moves toward a civil society.] Government will only move toward change when the people demand it, ... And with more pressure from civil society and government, business will change.

 A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

 All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police,

 A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

 We became our own mutual admiration society,


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