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Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. — Joseph Wood Krutch
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. — Stephen Jay Gould
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.''… — Woodrow Wilson
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us. — Haim Ginott
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they… — Plato
By revolution we become more ourselves, not less. — George Orwell
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You… — Samuel Johnson
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… — George Santayana
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant. — John Donne
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. — Elbert Hubbard
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck! — Euripides
Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than… — Simone de Beauvoir
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great… — Walter Savage Landor
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. — Billy Graham
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real… — Thornton Wilder
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This… — Unknown Author
Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than… — Plutarch
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow
Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less. — Charles Kennedy
If I had my dream, we'd all be eating more plants and less garbage. — Kris Carr
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less… — Norman Mailer

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