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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is th

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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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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Superstition
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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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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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Crime
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Swearing is industry language. For as long as were alive its not going to change. Youve got to be boisterous to get results. – Gordon Ramsay

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Change

Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. – William C. Bryant

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Change

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. – John Walters

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Change

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. – Jonathan Sacks

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Change

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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. – Thomas Arnold

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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. – Paul McCartney

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Its not a struggle, but sometimes when youre gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends. – Willow Shields

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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert

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