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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

Well, my whole thing with gossip is I couldn't care less if it's true.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.