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I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.