Moeurs Quotes

#1. En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

Denis Diderot

#2. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case

William Gibson

#3. But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Allen Tate

#4. I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

#5. Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer?
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Ruined is a strong word, I'd say.
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It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

#7. We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

James Hetfield

#8. In so much of life and professional activity, the simple strategies and techniques can be the most powerful.

Jack Canfield

#9. Yeshua shows us the Way to be saved from all that we think threatens us on the dark seas of our lives. Only when we, too, see what He sees can we leave the treasured boat that we think will save us and walk on the troubled waters that we thought would surely drown us.

Ted Dekker

#10. Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.

Charles M. Schulz

#11. Ah. Smart. The word had a very specific meaning, here in the valley.
A smart boy thought he knew more than his tutors, and answered back, and interrupted. A
smart boy was worse than a stupid one.

Terry Pratchett