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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.