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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. Maya Angelou | top
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. Aristotle | top
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Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. Rudolf Arnheim | top
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There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. Joseph Butler | top
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Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. Edwin Louis Cole | top
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The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. William Dampier | top
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My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. Leonardo DiCaprio | top
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. George Eliot | top
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one. Frances Farmer | top
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The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. James G. Frazer | top
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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. Edward T. Hall | top
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. Augustus Hare | top
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. Aaron Hill | top
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them. Horace | top
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Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available. Thomas Keller | top
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. Kevin Kelly | top
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The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. Christian Lous Lange | top
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. Harold MacMillan | top
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. Donald Norman | top
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People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. Jane Porter | top
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We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment. Sumner Redstone | top
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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell | top
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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. Roy L. Smith | top
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. Tacitus | top
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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. Charles Williams | top
