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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac

Law, Morals, Vice

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

Art, Science, Foundation

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Samuel Butler

Virtue, Vice, Midst

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Life, Real, Pass

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck

Wisdom, Discipline, Vice

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Death, Fear, Society

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
Tori Amos

Hurt, Young, Painful

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Mikhail Bakunin

Liberty, State, Individual

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Dionne Warwick

Woman, Understand, Water

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.
Jon Meacham

Life, Reason, American

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Great, Stand, Almost

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
Bill Parcells

Trust, Problem, Players

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
Robert Carlyle

Attitude, Before, Film

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
Dirk Benedict

Best, Real, Become

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
Bill Parcells

Trust, Problem, Players

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
Helmut Jahn

Thinking, Drawing, Vice

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Sargent Shriver

Work, System, Economic

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Desi Arnaz

Good, Comedy, Actor

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Robert Smith

Music, Good, Political

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
John Hawkes

Chance, Often, Actor

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
Aaron Eckhart

Women, Men, Cruel

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
Guy Forget

Good, Done, Through

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
Alan Cumming

Work, Money, Great

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
Christian Lous Lange

History, Often, Shows

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Ken Burns

History, Learning, Through

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Tony Curtis

Great, Husband, Girl

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan Perlis

Change, Fit, Vice

If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.
Megyn Kelly

Important, Shoes, Top

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
Benicio Del Toro

Character, Sometimes, Action

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