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The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his… — Malcolm X
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly… — Albert Einstein
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality. — George Benson
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. — Denis Diderot
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
The less you think, the more you believe. — Richard Dawkins
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not. — Ben Jonson
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less… — Charles Dudley Warner
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got — Andrew Young
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did — Henny Youngman
An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of… — Pope John XXIII
The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing… — Carl Jung

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