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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Who laughs less than feminists?

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.