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The more you play it the less you know about it. — Patty Berg
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. — Jack Nicklaus
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring… — Miyamoto Musashi
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. — John Milton
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk… — Alexander Hamilton
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton
The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes. — Martin Luther
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs… — Samuel Chadwick
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be… — John Owen
I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans… — Steve King
The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence. — Marshall McLuhan
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety… — D. A. Carson
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No,… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. — William Shakespeare

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