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Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess… — Louis Kronenberger
The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against… — Gloria Steinem
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless… — Max Lerner
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a… — Unknown Author
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a… — Melissa Bank
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that… — Baruch Spinoza
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of… — Baruch Spinoza
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be… — Bertrand Russell
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries. — James Fallows
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more,… — Loren Eiseley
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your… — John Ruskin
We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless… — Rebecca West
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent… — Juliana Hatfield
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. — Robert Breault
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of… — Rajneesh
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which… — Lady Bird Johnson
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,… — Luc de Clapiers

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