Favors Quotes - Page 24

• While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, White Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.362, Wildside Press LLC

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• A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

  Robert Cialdini

  Successful, People, Principles

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

  Larry Wall

  Use, Absence, Enough

  Usenet article <20031213210102.GE18685@wall.org>, groups.google.com. December 14, 2003.

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• In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark descent into the broken mind of Timothy Robert Shively will send chills down your back. Every word rings true, and every page is dark with menace. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up right now. You can thank me later.

  Joe

  Son, Dark, Blood

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• We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Strong, Nuclear

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Age, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Father, President, Campaigns

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• Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Wells, Tenacious

  "Q&A: Filming a War of Bombs in The Hurt Locker". Interview with Julian Sancton, www.vanityfair.com. July 8, 2009.

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• There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

  Mao Zedong

  Believe, People, Celebration

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Odds, Differences

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• Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

  Guy Finley

  Mean, Knows, You Choose

  Guy Finley (1992). “The Secret Way of Wonder: Insights from the Silence”, Llewellyn Worldwide Limited

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• It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Our World, Voice

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sides, Should, Fortune

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• I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author. Thus I believe that there is no part of matter which is not - I do not say divisible - but actually divisible; and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a world full of an infinity of different creatures.

  Georg Cantor

  God, Faith, Hope

  "Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians: A Quotation Book for Philomaths". Book by Rosemary Schmalz, 1993.

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• Mary was a virgin and he Bible says that she 'found favor' - that means there must have been others in the race. What quality did she have that made a depository of the royal seed? She was a virgin - a clean place - he looks for clean places to deposit truth & she was open to this unique & unusual move of God.

  Tommy Tenney

  Moving, Mean, Unique

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• Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down. Actually, it is wars, or conflicts threatening war, that cause armaments, not the reverse.

  James Burnham

  Peace, War, Causes

  James Burnham (1967). “The War We are in: The Last Decade and the Next”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.

  Jason Brennan

  Economy

  Jason Brennan (2012). “Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know?”, p.119, Oxford University Press

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• As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' But they've certainly been lying low while our twitchy, tweet-y times have favored snarkier, more air-quote-driven entertainment, even from puppets. And in a way, that showbiz hiatus has worked in favor of The Muppets. For adults, the movie's gentle, clever, unironic humor feels freshly, trendily retro now, enhanced by laughs provided in cameos from a very up-to-date roster of stars.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Stars, Queens, Clever

  "The Muppets" by Lisa Schwarzbaum, ew.com. November 30, 2011.

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• When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Knives, Two

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• And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Nuclear Disarmament, People, Politics

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• All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

  Maynard Webb

  Creating, People, Benefits

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Needs, Done, Benefits

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• A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.

  Gordon Tullock

  Mean, Government, Opening Up

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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