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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.