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en The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
  Brooks Atkinson

en The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for dinner.

en Children begin their lives in the social world of their families, however, as they mature they are introduced to the social world of peers and spend increasing amounts of time with kids their own age. The types of relationships they form differ from those they have with parents and siblings and teach them unique skills that impact their development. Peer relationships are more balanced and the partners tend to bring similar levels of ability, reasoning and skill to their interactions.

en It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

en Only when we regain some social justice, more social welfare, more real wage increases, only then can the economy recover. At least you know where you stand with us. We certainly won't succumb to the ridiculous temptation to campaign as the Party of the New Center.

en Ours is a business based on personal relationships and social contacts. This requires a social integration within the professional community and a personal access to company decision-makers that is too often lacking for our colleagues who happen to be neither male nor white.

en The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.

en Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the usual dating scene. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

en For both mice and men, social status is important; for mice, losing to a dominant mouse usually means that they avoid the dominant and they avoid social situations. These new findings add to a growing literature on the molecular basis of social behavior, helping us to know where as well as how social information is encoded in the brain.

en But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find those kinds of relationships. They're more vulnerable to the dangers present there.
  Nancy Willard

en Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.

en Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
  Quentin Crisp

en Social inequality has increased and there are growing indexes of social violence. Important mechanisms for the creation of opportunities and social integration such as universal health care and education policies have deteriorated, and at the same time salaries have dropped.

en The goal of the marriage amendment is to uphold a unique social cultural institution which provides stability for children so successive generations can achieve their full potential. This amendment does not degrade other social relationships. It affirms the unique role of husbands and wives in the rearing of children.

en Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.
  John Dewey


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