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Quote by Francis Beaumont
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. – Francis Beaumont

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. – Proverb

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. – Stephen Bayley

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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. – E.V. Lucas

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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. – John Boyd Orr

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Yes, they broke the law, but we cant deport them. Lets get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it – they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. – Michael Bloomberg

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. – James M. Barrie

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