Favors Quotes

• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Taxation

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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• I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.

  Anita Alvarez

  Gun, Law

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  It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Honesty, Hate

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• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Change, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015

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• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

  Omar Suleiman

  Humble, Helping Others, Done

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 05, 2013

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• The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving, Feelings, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Friendship, Bigs, Arrangements

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• People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

  Max Eastman

  People, Diversity, Net Neutrality

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

  Thomas Sowell

  Procrastination, Productive Life, Productive Work

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

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• Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

  Horace

  Too Much, Fool, Fortune

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Clever, Evolution, Natural

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

  James Lovelock

  Shapes, Environment, Organisms

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• I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Helping, Prosperity

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

  Lewis E. Lawes

  Friendship, Men, Dangerous Man

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• Fortune favors the audacious.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Fortune, Audacious

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• Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

  Phil Donahue

  Interesting, Court, Airline

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

  Gary Ackerman

  Immigration, Needs

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• I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

  Frank Vincent

  Community

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• Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  May, Given, Abandon

  "Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 76, 1721.

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• A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Granted

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

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• They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

  Robert Toombs

  Justice, Special, Principles

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.5

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• Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

  Hedda Hopper

  Punishment, Two, Telephones

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• There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Soul

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