Favors Quotes - Page 20

• I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Believe, Stupidity

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.487, Best Books on

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

  David Dreman

  Company, Happens

  David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of "diversity," it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendships with those who share similar backgrounds, interests and values. It makes for more shared experiences, easier conversations and more comfortable silences. Despite many exceptions, the urge is nearly universal. It's human nature.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  People, Diversity, Silence

  "A Tyranny of True Believers" by Robert Samuelson, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 6, 2008.

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• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Change, Selfish

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.20, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

  Mario Teguh

  Strong, Believe, Clients

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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.

  William James

  Doctors, Patient, Efficacy

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  Francis Quarles

  Plato, Prejudice, World

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• The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

  Dallas Willard

  Humility, Order, May

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• Democracy destroys the unity of the Rumanian nation, dividing it among political parties, making Rumanians hate one another, and thus exposing a divided people to the united congregation of Jewish power at a difficult time in the nation's history. This argument alone is so persuasive as to warrant the discarding of democracy in favor of anything that would ensure our unity - or life itself. For disunity means death.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Hate, Party, Mean

  "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

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• You don't need everyone to help you. You just need one touch of favor, and you will accomplish in a split second what could have taken your whole lifetime.

  Joel Osteen

  Taken, Needs, Splits

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• I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Thinking, Leaving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. Fabruary 11, 2013.

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• Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Compassion, Opportunity

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• God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doors, Giving, Care

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• He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

  Demosthenes

  Kindness, Men, Different

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• There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

  Arianna Huffington

  Live Life, Looks, Purpose

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony

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• Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

  Joel Osteen

  Affirmation, Good Things, Favor Of God

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2012

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• You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Generations, Affirmation

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• Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

  James Goldsmith

  Debt, Merit, Dignity

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• We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

  Richard T. Ely

  Attitude, Class, Radicalism

  "Socialism: An Examination of Its Nature, Its Strength and Its Weakness, With Suggestions for Social Reform". Book by Richard T. Ely, 1894.

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• Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

  Alexander Pope

  Dignity, Fame

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• No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blow, Wind, Goal

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• A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.

  William C. Menninger

  Jobs, Motivation, School

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• I will never say, 'support the troops.' I don't believe in the validity of that statement. People say, 'I don't support the war, I support the troops' as though you can actually separate the two. You cannot; the troops are a part of the war, they have become the war and there is no valid dissection of the two. Other people shout with glaring eyes that we should give up our politics, give up our political affiliations in favor of 'just supporting the troops.' I wish everything were that easy.

  Thomas Naughton

  Giving Up, Hate, War

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• No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Gratitude, Cat, Winning

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