"I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation."
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"God's grace is amazing! We're saved by grace - God's undeserved favor - and we live by grace, which is also God's power in our lives to do what we could never do in our own strength. And it's all because God is love, and He loves us unconditionally, constantly and completely."
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"Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?"
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"It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel."
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"I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English."
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"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."
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"An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses."
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"Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems."
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"By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders, the racial injustices, the economic tyrannies, and the whole socioeconomic apparatus which seems geared for nothing but global destruction in spite of all its fair words in favor of peace."
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"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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"If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting."
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"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."
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"Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment."
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"The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders."
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"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."
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"No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron."
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"When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!"
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"O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."
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"For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial."
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