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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.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.