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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it ma

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. – 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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Freda Adler
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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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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior. – D.A. Battista

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. – Mary Mcleod Bethune

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10 – Bible

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Bravery

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. – Joanna Baillie

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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. – Francis Bacon

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. – Charles Babbage

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Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman

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