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- There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds… — Bernard de Mandeville
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison
- Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan
- The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect… — Atul Gawande
- In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is… — Joanna Macy
- In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis;… — Carol Shields
- People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear,… — Josephine Humphreys