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So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
– Winston Churchill
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
– Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
– George Lucas, Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
– Brenda Ueland
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money
– Ayn Rand
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
– William of Baskerville
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
– Arthur Marx
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
– Mark Twain
SOAPY You know, feisty women never get boring. JOEL Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.
– Jerry Stahl
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
– Denis de Rougemont
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
– John Dewey
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
– G. M. Trevelyan
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
– Eric Hoffer
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
– Marquis de Sade
Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
– 'Detroit Journal'
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
– Oswald Spengler
Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
– B. F. Skinner
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
– John Lahr
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.
– Abraham Myerson

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