Parsons/people

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    Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
    —Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)

    Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves—and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)