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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

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.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.