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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.
Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.