Less Quotes
10086 quotes by 5567 authors
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For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
— Pico Iyer
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In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And…
— Shulamith Firestone
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have…
— Steve Case
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the…
— R. Scott Bakker
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy…
— Jerry Pournelle
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I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material.…
— Jerry Pournelle
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If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say…
— Michael Lewis
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Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has…
— Yohji Yamamoto
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If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is…
— Neville Goddard
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Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard
— Neville Goddard
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Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent,…
— Samuel Fuller
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent…
— Alfred de Vigny
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the…
— Unknown Author
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At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it…
— Adrian Goldsworthy
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We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.
— Kenny Guinn
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic…
— Dan Ariely
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Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is…
— Julia Sweeney
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
— G. Stanley Hall
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