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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval… — Samuel Johnson
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said… — Henri Nouwen
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have… — Nicholas Murray Butler
My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off… — Ozzy Osbourne
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,… — Peter Canisius
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for… — Helen Prejean
When we have entered into divine covenants, the Holy Ghost is our comforter, our guide, and our companion. The fruits of the Holy Spirit are… — D. Todd Christofferson
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who… — Grantland Rice
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in… — Ramakrishna
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but… — John Dewey
Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just… — Ricardo Semler
We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother,… — Queen Elizabeth II
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Unknown Author
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
When my oldest boy was about 14, I started to talk to him about some of the mistakes I made in life, just to put… — Denzel Washington
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse… — Michael J. Fox
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. — Leo Baekeland
If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might… — Stephen Hawking
Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there… — Steven Chu

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