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Had I relied only on the conventional work, I might never have known of their great underground struggle against what you term society.
The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl 1957
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Beauty and virtue are not marketable in the bazaar where souls and bodies are bought and sold — in the den of selfishness which you call society.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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It is the interdependence in function on the mental side, the contact and overlapping of our inner selves, which makes possible that form of collective life which we call society.
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From the work and fatigues of this world, people had gathered for a little enjoyment of what we call society.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Ford, Paul L 1894
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Neither was her manner objectionable to the degree that you could have pointed to any one thing as offensive; yet you would have been sure, had you watched her, that she was without the pale of what we call society.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking 1841-1930 Pansy 1885
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From the work and fatigues of this world, people had gathered for a little enjoyment of what we call society.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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Even less does this equality exist in the presence of that union of constituted social forces which we call society.
The Cult of Incompetence ��mile Faguet 1881
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But I am interested in Katherine, and it will be far better for her to stay on here and feel her way before she launches into the whirl of what they call society.
A Crooked Path A Novel Mrs. Alexander 1863
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Beauty and virtue are not marketable in the bazaar where souls and bodies are bought and sold -- in the den of selfishness which you call society.
A Woman of Thirty Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Just as psychology may be regarded as an account of the manner in which the individual organism, as a whole, exercises control over its parts or rather of the manner in which the parts co-operate together to carry on the corporate existence of the whole, so sociology, speaking strictly, is a point of view and a method for investigating the processes by which individuals are inducted into and induced to co-operate in some sort of permanent corporate existence which we call society.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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