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• Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Race, Regulation

  "King v. The College of Physicians". 1797.

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• God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.56, Moody Publishers

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• America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Art, Liars, Lying

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  And Love, Use, Ascent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1583, Delphi Classics

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• Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

  E. O. Wilson

  Looks, Environment, Masterpiece

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• The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

  Fernand Braudel

  Fashion, Degrees, Economics

  Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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• Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, "I want to do it!" But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children's needs, they say, "Help me to do it alone." And these words reveal their inner needs.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, School, Needs

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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, People, Giving

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• Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.

  James Franco

  Art, Book, Responsibility

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Book, Competition, Liberty

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Preface to the German Edition, February, 1936.

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• I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

  Philippe Claudel

  Speed, Thrillers, Rhythm

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Thinking, Greek

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

  Anthony Powell

  Hands, Dexterity, Emotion

  Anthony Powell (2014). “Afternoon Men: A Novel”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Beautiful, God, Nature

  "The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America, Volume 32". Book published by The Association (p. 6), 1925.

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• For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Way, Perfume

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• I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Justice, Age

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.

  John Locke

  God, Real, Knowledge

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.714, Library of Alexandria

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• Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

  Pliny the Elder

  Hands, Practice, Overcoming

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

  Mark Hopkins

  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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• The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

  Milan Kundera

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  Hale Irwin

  Careers, Iron, Made

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• As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Culture, Moved

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• How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?

  Charles Darwin

  Character, Men, Effort

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Charles Darwin

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• A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

  Peter Farb

  Simple, Society, Way

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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