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Society
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Us Versus Them, Always.
Society is a complex, interconnected network of individuals bound together by shared culture, institutions, and a sense of collective identity, shaping their behavior and interactions. It is fundamentally meaningful because it provides the framework for human survival, growth, and fulfillment, offering both the structure necessary for progress and the context for developing individual identity and purpose.
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# Society & Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William Boyd (writer)" (Quotes, The Blue Afternoon(1993))
“(p. 7).”
— William Boyd
1952 births
Living people
Novelists from Scotland
Short story writers from Scotland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, The House Gun (1998))
“page 113”
— Nadine Gordimer
Academics from South Africa
Novelists from South Africa
South African Jews
Jewish atheistsJ
1940 birthsJ
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William Boyd (writer)" (Quotes, The Blue Afternoon(1993))
“(p. 37).”
— William Boyd
# Society & Fellows of the Royal Society
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Context: • p. 7
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kazuo Ishiguro" (Quotes, Never Let Me Go (2005):
All page numbers from the trade paperback First Vintage International Edition published by Vintage Books in March 2006 , Chapter 1)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kazuo Ishiguro" (Quotes, Never Let Me Go (2005):
All page numbers from the trade paperback First Vintage International Edition published by Vintage Books in March 2006 , Chapter 1)
“The idiot.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Academics from the United Kingdom
Booker Prize winners
Novelists from England
1954 birthsJ
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 1)”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 2)”
— J. M. Coetzee
# Society & University of Oxford alumni
Context: • Explaining to John Parker why he was being sacked from the government in 1946.
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
“Not up to the job.”
— Clement Attlee
1883 births
1967 deaths
Academics from England
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Context: • Press Conference for Washington Post and Newsweek (17 November 1988)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
“Marxism has had it.”
— Margaret Thatcher
Politicians from England
British peers
Context: • Tweeted during his participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tim Berners-Lee" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tim Berners-Lee" (Quotes)
“This is for everyone”
— Tim Berners-Lee
Computer scientists
Inventors
UnitariansContext: • Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 128.
• To Sydney Silverman, a Labour MP who had arrived back at Parliament with a beard. Echoes the motion "I move previous business" used at Parliamentary Labour Party meetings to end discussion on a topic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
• To Sydney Silverman, a Labour MP who had arrived back at Parliament with a beard. Echoes the motion "I move previous business" used at Parliamentary Labour Party meetings to end discussion on a topic.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
“I move previous face!”
— Clement Attlee
“Cool URIs don't change”
— Tim Berners-Lee
# Society & Living people
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 4 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 5 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 9 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 11)”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 12)”
— J. M. Coetzee
# Society & Nobel laureates in Literature
Context: • On losing his position at the Admiralty in 1915. Said to Lord Riddell, as cited in Maxims and Reflections, Chapter I (On Himself), Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company (1947).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
“I am finished.”
— Winston Churchill
People from Oxford
1874 births
Context: • Act III (Sergius)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
“I never apologize.”
— George Bernard Shaw
1856 births
1950 deaths
Academics from Ireland
Playwrights from IrelandContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, The Quotable Gordimer (2014): Yonder Mark (ed.))
“Death's the discarder.”
— Nadine Gordimer
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“That is how it begins.”
— J. M. Coetzee
Context: • Paragraph 4
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" (1988))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nadine Gordimer" (Quotes, "The Moment Before the Gun Went Off" (1988))
“city and overseas people”
— Nadine Gordimer
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 1)”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 2)”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 4 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 5 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 9 )”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 11)”
— J. M. Coetzee
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "J. M. Coetzee" (Quotes, Disgrace (1999))
“(Chapter 12)”
— J. M. Coetzee
Context: • Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. II (1835), edited by Robert James Meckintosh, p. 516 (index).
• This index entry refers the reader to Vol. I, p. 280, where a single-word footnote defines "Tiffin" as "Lunch".
• Source: Wikiquote: "James Mackintosh" (Quotes)
• This index entry refers the reader to Vol. I, p. 280, where a single-word footnote defines "Tiffin" as "Lunch".
• Source: Wikiquote: "James Mackintosh" (Quotes)
“Tiffin, what”
— James Mackintosh
Jurists
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Politicians from Scotland
Essayists from Scotland
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Charles Darwin" (Quotes, Autobiography (1958):
All quotes from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the Original Omissions Restored. (1958) Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow.
Spelling and punctuation as in the book )
All quotes from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the Original Omissions Restored. (1958) Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow.
Spelling and punctuation as in the book )
“Autobiography”
— Charles Darwin
1809 births
1882 deaths
Agnostics
Science authorsContext: • On losing his position at the Admiralty in 1915. Said to Lord Riddell, as cited in Maxims and Reflections, Chapter I (On Himself), Churchill, Houghton Mifflin Company (1947).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Winston Churchill" (Quotes, Early career (1897–1929))
“I am finished.”
— Winston Churchill
1871 births
1937 deaths
Physicists from New Zealand
Physicists from the United KingdomP
Context: • Chapter 27, P. 186.
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. D. James" (Quotes, The Children of Men (1992))
• Source: Wikiquote: "P. D. James" (Quotes, The Children of Men (1992))
“That he cares.”
— P. D. James
Detective fiction authors
Context: • January 4, 1660, and repeated on many later dates.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Samuel Pepys" (Quotes, Diary)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Samuel Pepys" (Quotes, Diary)
“And so to bed.”
— Samuel Pepys
Diarists
Civil servants
People from London
1703 deathsP
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "P. D. James" (Quotes, The Children of Men (1992))
“That He exists?”
— P. D. James
Context: • The Nature of the Universe (1950), p. 113
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Hoyle" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Hoyle" (Quotes)
“"Big Bang" theory”
— Fred Hoyle
Astronomers from England
Cosmologists
Science fiction authors from the United KingdomContext: • Act III (Sergius)
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
• Source: Wikiquote: "George Bernard Shaw" (Quotes, 1890s, Arms and the Man (1898))
“I never apologize.”
— George Bernard Shaw
Context: • As quoted in Margaret Mead: A Life (1984) by Jane Howard, p. 60
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Mead" (Quotes, 1980s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Mead" (Quotes, 1980s)
“Be lazy, go crazy.”
— Margaret Mead
1901 births
1978 deaths
Academics from the United States
Anthropologists from the United StatesContext: • Explaining to John Parker why he was being sacked from the government in 1946.
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
• Quoted in Harold Wilson, Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister (Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Clement Attlee" (Attributed)
“Not up to the job.”
— Clement Attlee
Non-fiction authors from EnglandContext: • Press Conference for Washington Post and Newsweek (17 November 1988)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Thatcher" (Quotes, Third term as Prime Minister)
“Marxism has had it.”
— Margaret Thatcher
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