More Or Less Quotes
160 More Or Less quotes by 153 unique authors
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less…
— George Orwell
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
— Jean Piaget
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting…
— Robert Plant
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Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more…
— Jonathan Raban
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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
— Samuel Richardson
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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right…
— George Saunders
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul…
— George Santayana
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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
— Herbert Simon
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The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I…
— Peter Singer
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
— Susan Sontag
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One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is…
— Lysander Spooner
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A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole…
— Cat Stevens
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or…
— Earl Warren
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When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with…
— Andrew Weil
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I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of…
— Simone Weil
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Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be…
— Steve Wozniak
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Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to…
— Julian Baggini
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'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.
— Colm Toibin
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When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is…
— Brian Eno
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The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers…
— Ryan Holmes
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Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a…
— Louis Sullivan
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right…
— Henry Rollins
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In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps,…
— Theo Jansen
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When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more…
— Patrick O'Brian
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