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If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more… — U.G. Krishnamurti
To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live… — Phoebe Philo
For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't… — Kajol
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true… — Amy Carmichael
He who fears from near at hand often fears less. — Seneca the Younger
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span. — Seneca the Younger
A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if… — Laozi
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. — W. Somerset Maugham
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest… — Aldous Huxley
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to… — Aldous Huxley
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less. — P.J. O'Rourke
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery
Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst… — Nicholas Negroponte
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without… — James Truslow Adams
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Laurence J. Peter

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