#adapted

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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.


Henry A. Wallace


#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.


Alfred Russel Wallace


#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.'


Ai Weiwei


#being #cannot #china #close #contemplation

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.


Martin Van Buren


#adapted #already #been #best #conviction

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.


Woodrow Wilson


#adapted #ball #control #endeavors #game

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.


Steve Yzerman


#also #always #any #deserved #feel

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.


John Grisham


#adapted #almost #away #been #being

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.


Samuel Butler


#becoming #best #intended #men #prevent

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.


William Lyon Phelps


#earthquake #god #hearing #imperfect #language

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.


Plato


#children #esteem #fictions #first #greatest