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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Morality
[ William J. Durant ]
818 votes.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
[ Thomas A. Edison ]
818 votes.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Compliments
[ George Eliot ]
818 votes.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
Things and Little Things
[ Odysseus Elytis ]
818 votes.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Talent
[ Desiderius Erasmus ]
818 votes.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
Wonder
[ M. C. Escher ]
818 votes.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry and Poets
[ Gustave Flaubert ]
818 votes.

There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
Men
[ Robert B. Fleming ]
818 votes.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Innocence
[ Anatole France ]
818 votes.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Opposition
[ Sigmund Freud ]
818 votes.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.
Learning
[ Gaelic Proverb ]
818 votes.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Action
[ German Proverb ]
818 votes.

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
Paradise
[ Andre Gide ]
818 votes.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Age and Aging
[ John Greier ]
818 votes.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
[ Henry S. Haskins ]
818 votes.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Opportunity
[ Eric Hoffer ]
818 votes.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Nature
[ Horace ]
818 votes.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
[ William Dean Howells ]
818 votes.

A library implies an act of faith.
Libraries
[ Victor Hugo ]
818 votes.

Avarice, the spur of industry.
Greed
[ David Hume ]
818 votes.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
Newspapers
[ Thomas Jefferson ]
818 votes.

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Principles
[ Thomas Jefferson ]
818 votes.

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
Complaints and Complaining
[ Johnson ]
818 votes.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
Dignity
[ Ronald Knox ]
818 votes.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Men and Women
[ Michael Korda ]
818 votes.

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