"Custom adapts itself to expediency." — Tacitus

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• The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. — Theodor Adorno
• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus
• All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
• A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant… — Erich Fromm
• A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is… — Coco Chanel
• Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running… — Don Kardong
• Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move.… — James W. Pennebaker
• You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a… — Mark Rippetoe
• Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man… — James Hervey
• Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to… — Yukito Kishiro
• A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period — Coco Chanel

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