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• That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden.

  Timothy Leary

  Garden, Dna, Years

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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• President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

  David Letterman

  Blue, President, Want

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• Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Ideas, Rights

  "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1795.

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• Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

  Marcel Theroux

  Literature, Lines, Simulacrum

  Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Giving, Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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• The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

  Alain de Botton

  Hints, May, Matter

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Artist, Inability, Departure

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• The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fall, Ideas, Keys

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• Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a question of the Holy Spirit's producing His fruit in the life, reproducing those graces which were seen in perfection in the life of Christ.

  F. F. Bruce

  Christian, Law, Perfection

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• As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

  Dave Barry

  United States, Budweiser, Taxation

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.72, Crown Archetype

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• Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.

  Arthur Koestler

  Thinking, Suggestions, Disease

  1964 The Act of Creation.

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Wise, Home

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

  William Carlos Williams

  Way, Fool, Conducting

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.483, New Directions Publishing

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• And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Champion, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

  Jerry Brown

  America, Government, Soul

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

  Frederick Lewis Allen

  Tears, Easier

  Frederick Lewis Allen (2015). “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.

  Joseph Beuys

  Attitude, Crazy, Creativity

  "Beuys: Tracce in Italia". Book by Germano Celant, 1978.

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• Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mean, Men, Discipline

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

  Patrick Carney

  Mixing, Ethical

  "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2014.

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• We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.

  Barney Frank

  Years, Ideas, Payroll Tax

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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• If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Real, Looks, Zips

  "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.

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• When I got into comedy, which was really for acting, I would see the guys who would be considered great today. They were great, but after a few minutes I could get kind of bored because they wouldn't move around. The dress code was boring to me. I didn't want to see the guy next door when I'm watching a performer. I wanted to see someone I would pay a ticket for.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Moving, Doors, Bored

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Believe, Law

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and authoritative. Some young women think there's no reason why they can't wear flip flops in the office in the summer because their accomplishments should exempt them from a stodgy dress code.

  Robin Givhan

  Summer, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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