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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.