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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Just eat less and exercise more.

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.