"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge."
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"Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?"
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"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
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"In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford."
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"You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies."
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"The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin."
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"To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood."
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"Men are never attached to you by favours."
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"I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice."
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"Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]"
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"When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour."
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"No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it."
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"It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism."
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"Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it."
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"The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form."
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"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
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"God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour."
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"He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it."
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"The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate."
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"So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy."
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