Favors Quotes - Page 27

• Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Men, White Man, Organization

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.48

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• I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

  Peter Welch

  Cutting, Class, Demand

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• Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

  Peter Welch

  Party, Casting, Limits

  "Playing chicken with U.S. economy". www.politico.com. March 17, 2011.

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• It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

  Elliott Abrams

  Kings, Couple, Thinking

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• You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

  Michael Bassey

  Love You, Knows, Asks

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• In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Integrity, Long, Way

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• We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

  Sharron Angle

  Needs, Phases, Social

  "Approval Ratings Down, Reid In Re-Election Fight". Interview, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.

  Benjamin Rush

  Book, Mean, Government

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Men, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

  Jake Pavelka

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• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  Pat Gillick

  Communication, Machines, Texting

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• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Relief, Abandoned, Pragmatism

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Country, Children, Believe

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• Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Sibling, Independent

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• My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Journey, Two

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• It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

  Ian McHarg

  Order, Environmental, Attention

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• RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Railroads, Purpose

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.176, 谷月社

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• The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

  Hillary Clinton

  Typical, Ceo, Workers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Stuff, Chance, Wells

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

  Larry Page

  People, Return, Treats

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• About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.

  Kin Hubbard

  People, Birth, Storks

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• Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wings, Luck, Bidding

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• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Glasses, Two

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.168, A&C Black

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Giving, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Two, Voice

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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