"Chance generally favors the prudent."
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"The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything."
"Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions."
"I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesnt always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers."
"You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections."
"If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail."
"If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
"I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors."
"Reality favors symmetry."
"I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch."
"Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes."
"I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff."
"If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor."
"Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell."
"Always we argue that unity is necessity because disunity goes in favor of the U.S. , which are our enemy, and everything that goes in favor of the enemy must be eliminated. That is why we are in favor of unity."
"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form."
"Look with favor upon a bold beginning."
"The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately."
"Men are never attached to you by favours."
"The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods."