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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. – Freda Adler

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. – Freda Adler

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Knowledge
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. – Freda Adler

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Change
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – Freda Adler

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Locks keep out only the honest. – Yiddish Proverb

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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. – Proverb

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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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We are the people our parents warned us about. – Jimmy Buffett

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Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it. – Author Unknown

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Dont throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. – Swedish Proverb

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Its a miserable life in Hollywood. Youre up at five or six oclock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. – William Wyler

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

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