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My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that. -- Columba Bush
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. -- Zoe Saldana
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. -- Winona Ryder
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life. -- Henry Van Dyke
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true. -- Tina Yothers
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. -- Irvine Welsh
Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least. -- George Whitefield
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category. -- Faye Wattleton
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. -- Hugh Miller
Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots. -- Mark Boal
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. -- Eugene Ionesco
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people. -- Dave deBronkart
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent. -- Emile Durkheim
Society is a little more forgiving of two women kissing than two men. It's sad but true. -- Tiffani Thiessen
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also. -- Victor Hugo
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society. -- Pope John Paul II
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society. -- Les Wexner

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