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Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should… — Marcus Terentius Varro
We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less… — Francois Mauriac
...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion. — Nick Gordon
PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically… — Anthony Bourdain
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no… — Shane Koyczan
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands… — Constantin Stanislavski
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed… — Lewis H. Lapham
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping… — William James
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success… — Fran Tarkenton
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson
'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are… — Don Johnston
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its… — Wyndham Lewis
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. — Cleveland Amory
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so… — R. D. Laing

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