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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.