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Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City.

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

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.