"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman……" — Simone de Beauvoir

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• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that… — Florence Nightingale
• We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
• This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice… — Peter Canisius
• The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share… — Lavinia Greenlaw
• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks… — Ruth Reichl
• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as… — Yvon Chouinard
• If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never… — David Foster Wallace
• People are so codified - it's sad. — Jean Paul Gaultier
• Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. — S I Hayakawa
• To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial,… — Raymond Sokolov
• Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone… — Isabel Wilkerson

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