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I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.