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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. (Thomas More)
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. View quote
Heinrich Heine
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. View quote
Steve Prefontaine
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. View quote
Le Corbusier
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. View quote
Marie Curie
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. View quote
James Branch Cabell
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. (Marcus Aurelius)
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. View quote
René Descartes
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. View quote
Livy
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
Plutarch
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. View quote
Peter De Vries
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. View quote
Brian May
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. View quote
Diane Arbus
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. View quote
John Updike
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. View quote
Charles de Lint
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. View quote
Horace Mann
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. (James Madison)
The more I see the less I know for sure. View quote
John Lennon
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. View quote
William Hazlitt
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. View quote
Eldridge Cleaver
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