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The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.