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I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I think it's just a lot more pressure to make the scenes work when you're doing a film, because when you're doing a series you feel like, I have so many scenes, so many episodes, so if I don't get it exactly right this time, I have another scene later. You feel less pressure.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

I like to see how I can do it for less money.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.