Favors Quotes - Page 15

• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Ownership

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Mistake, Sunday

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• The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Government, Turkeys

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• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Vegetables

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

  H. L. Mencken

  America, Judging, Decay

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.254, Knopf

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• Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.

  John Travolta

  Men, Hollywood, Return

  "John Travolta Sued By Masseur For Assault And Sexual Battery", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone (We) have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Joy, Faces, Gone

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• The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thinking, Air, Giving

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Colonization, Known

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.243, Penguin

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• The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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• The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Goodness, Mankind

  "The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language".

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• The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Kings, Selfish

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1905). “Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words”

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that and the other thing.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Special, Tariffs

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.71, Hoover Press

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• I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Effort, Doubt

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, People, Standards

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• It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Government, People, Political

  "Senator Jay Rockefeller Wishes FCC Would Shut Down Fox News". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2010.

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• To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Biblical, Grace, Bows

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.131, InterVarsity Press

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• Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

  Jacques Pepin

  Hands, Cooking, Prepared

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• The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

  James E. Grunig

  Communication, Research, Rewards

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