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Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

The more wit the less courage.

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.