Favored Quotes
107 quotes by 93 authors
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
— Buzz Aldrin
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I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here…
— Mitt Romney
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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
— George S. Clason
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none…
— Thomas Szasz
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With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to…
— Rick Bayan
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Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.
— Henry Campbell Black
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.…
— James Monroe
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic…
— Florence King
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Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .…
— Joseph Story
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Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created,…
— Ron Paul
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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
— H. L. Mencken
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