Codes Quotes

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There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of… — Michel Hazanavicius
In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there… — C.S. Friedman
The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. — Jack Anderson
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes!… — Russell Means
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral… — Denis de Rougemont
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine
How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes… — Nancy Horan
There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for… — Randy Cohen
One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all… — Adrienne Rich
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as… — Swami Satchidananda
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures… — Lionel Tiger
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women… — William J. Brennan
We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental… — John Yau
What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the… — Terence McKenna
I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if… — Barbara Kruger
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. — Salman Rushdie
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and… — Donna Murphy
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the… — Winston Churchill
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come… — Swami Vivekananda

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