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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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• Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

  E. B. White

  Weather, Dubious, Tasks

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• Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Men, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Being A Woman, Fortune, Young

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Life Changing, Heart, Grace

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• It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ungrateful People, Tragedy, Unbearable

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.

  Dan Rather

  Three, Sticks, Response

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• The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Government, Groups

  Commonwealth Club Address, delivered 23 Sept 1932, San Francisco, CA

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• A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grateful, Men, Delightful

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• A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, Moving, Heart

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• There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Safety, Enemy

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• It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Easy, Fortune, Easy To Get

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 282,

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• He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

  Publilius Syrus

  Back Again, Boast

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• It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sight, People, Firsts

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.127

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Numbers, Land

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• Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

  Germaine Greer

  Work, Play, Rewards

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Nice, Blessed, Heart

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• In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

  Andre Breton

  Future, Humanity, Events

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• Reality favors symmetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reality, Symmetry

  Richard Burgin, Jorge Luis Borges (1969). “Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges”, Not Avail

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• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

  Earl Warren

  Country, Father, House

  The San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3, October 30, 1948.

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• I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Reform, Financial

  "Case against Goldman is 'very weak'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Growing Up, People

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Rights, Should Have

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