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Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they… — Paul Hawken
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen.… — Albert Ellis
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation. — Richard M. Nixon
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction. — Julian Barnes
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all… — Roger Angell
We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we… — Warren G. Bennis
Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the… — Edgar Friedenberg
The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally… — James Cromwell
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press… — Gunnar Myrdal
Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it… — Guy Finley
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps… — James Agee
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh. — Maureen Howard
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary… — Paul Theroux
Less coin, less care ... — Joshua Reynolds
Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because… — Israel Shenker
People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared… — Gunnar Myrdal
In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest… — Morton Irving Seiden
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite,… — Mohammed Dib

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