Favourable Quotes
46 quotes by 40 authors
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
— Winston Churchill
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Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease…
— William Osler
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The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
— Matthieu Ricard
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I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is…
— Bertrand Russell
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
— William Shakespeare
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It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and…
— Maurice Wilkins
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It struck me that favourable variations would tend to be preserved and unfavourable ones tend to be destroyed
— Charles Darwin
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces…
— Antonio Gramsci
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Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
— Edmund Burke
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into…
— Adolf Galland
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I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was…
— Max Nordau
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an…
— Arthur Eddington
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Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed…
— George Washington
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An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable…
— Warren Buffett
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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?
— Warren Buffett
Who Wrote These Favourable Quotes
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