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Quote by Freda Adler
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its socia

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

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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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It is bad luck to be superstitious. – Andrew W. Mathis

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. – Soren Kierkegaard

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler

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The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work. – Richard Eyre

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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think its kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe thats it. – Charisma Carpenter

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