Less Often Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,…
— Albert Einstein
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
— William Hazlitt
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.…
— Charlton Heston
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My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if…
— Fran Lebowitz
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Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often…
— Scott E. Page
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Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard a Texas vessel,…
— Cherie Priest
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Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find…
— Alexander Kotov
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Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is…
— Westbrook Pegler
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If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.
— Robert Breault
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To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or…
— Robert Grudin
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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
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If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take…
— Diana Loomans
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If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
— Wilhelm Rontgen
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As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals,…
— Atul Gawande
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People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their…
— Jane Rule
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It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that…
— Joan Didion
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Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
— Michael Gruber
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