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• That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.

  George Mason

  Men, Law, Land

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

  John Calvin

  Church, May, Scripture

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

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• it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

  John Calvin

  Good Luck, Men, Honor

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.42, Baker Books

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• What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

  Thomas Brooks

  Long, Giving, Honor

  "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1652.

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• May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

  Themistocles

  Friends, May, Stranger

  "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.

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• I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Thinking, Age, Gone

  "Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction". Book by Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stiller, 1999.

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• [on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Book, Mean

  "Romney Favors Hubbard Novel" by Jim Rutenberg, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2007.

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• The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Real, Damage Is Done, Giving

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be 'Al Qaeda Operative'". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Miracle

  "Max Lucado on his new film and why December is so painful for so many". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. November 22, 2013.

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• It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.

  Desmond Tutu

  Eyebrows, Looks, Pits

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them.

  Bill Gates

  Alzheimer's, Innovation, Cost

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Shields, Honest

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

  Vanna Bonta

  Artist, Years, Looks

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

  Ian Hacking

  Simplicity, Done, World

  Ian Hacking (1984). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

  Herbert Read

  Feelings, Conformity, Social

  "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.

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• Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.

  Mike Godwin

  Exercise, Technology, Rights

  Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business

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• I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

  Charles Sheeler

  Journey, Battle, Trying

  Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

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• There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

  Anna Paskevska

  Giving, Ballet, Technique

  Anna Paskevska, Chair of the Dance Department Anna Paskevska (2005). “Ballet Beyond Tradition”, p.50, Routledge

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• The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

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• Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.

  Lee Labrada

  Bodybuilding, Years, Long

  Interview with John Hansen, www.bodybuilding.com. August 10, 2014.

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• A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.

  Joseph Alleine

  Men, Wrath, Justice

  Joseph Alleine (1816). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise”, p.107

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• History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned - could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Views, Historical

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Order, Innovation, Environmental

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