Favorable Quotes
161 quotes by 141 authors
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.
— Creflo A. Dollar
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The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a…
— Lin Yutang
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Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
— Vincent de Paul
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
— Aristotle
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Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
— Seneca the Elder
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
— Samuel Johnson
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To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you…
— Nido R Qubein
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from…
— Bertrand Russell
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He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance…
— Ernst Engel
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The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
— Ole Hallesby
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The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal…
— Joel Barlow
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Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to…
— Fred Hoyle
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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
— Adolf Hitler
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You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone…
— Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.…
— Albert Einstein
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By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged…
— Benjamin Franklin
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