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Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months… — Colin Fletcher
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what… — Walter Pater
Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy… — Paul Volcker
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed… — Lytton Strachey
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less. — Patricia Schroeder
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience… — Judith Wright
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. — Jean de la Bruyere
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness… — Polly Toynbee
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do… — Bill Pascrell
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget… — Andrzej Wajda
I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your… — Meg Whitman
We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior… — Major Owens
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical,… — Don Nickles
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day,… — Armstrong Williams
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth. — Ben Lindsey
...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even… — Saint Augustine
A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer. — Ambrose Bierce
A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and… — Frederic Chopin
When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less. — Richard Armour
Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something. — Patrick Stump
Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. — Marcus Aurelius
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. — Charles Baudelaire
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money… — Ron Chernow
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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