Favors Quotes - Page 29

• As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

  David Salle

  Running, Demand, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

  Dave Sim

  Couple, Thinking, Generations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2004.

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• Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

  David Sklansky

  Winning, Odds, Win Or Lose

  David Sklansky (1999). “The Theory of Poker”, p.10, Two Plus Two Publishing LLC

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• This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

  Socrates

  Doe, Universe

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• God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Delight, Made

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Light

  "The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70), 1888.

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• We absolve a friend from gratitude when we remind him of a favor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude

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• That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Groups, Doe

  Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

  Hugo Black

  Security Systems, Government, Views

  Concurring opinion, Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298, 1957.

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• The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forgiveness, Character, United States

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• Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Merit

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Writing, Newspapers

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• I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.

  James Madison

  Men, Clouds, Giving

  James Madison (1962). “The Papers of James Madison”

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• The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

  David Hasselhoff

  Fun, Mistake, People

  Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.

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• The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

  Edward Norton

  Environmental Health, Civilization, Justice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Corruption, Sells

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.275, Penguin

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• Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.

  Adam Rex

  Team, Fighting

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• There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Disappointment, Eye, Careers

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Paris sketch book. Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo”, p.505

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• Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blind, Fortune, Seems

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• In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.167

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• It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Democracy

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• I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Marijuana, Law, Doctors

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• I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Communism, Exploitation, Capitalism

  "Unarmed Victory". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 14, 1963.

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• The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Facts, Belief

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.534, Psychology Press

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• There are now unmistakeable signs of a trend in favor of superior products at premium prices. The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife.

  David Ogilvy

  Wife, Trends, Premium

  "Ogilvy on Advertising". Book by David Ogilvy, p.170, 1983.

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