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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.

Ian Macfarlane

Attitude, Freedom, Economic

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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

Miyamoto Musashi

War, Mean, Men

Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Bertrand Russell

Life, War, Pestilence

Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

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When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

John Dryden

Life, Running, Lying

'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace in Her maternal goodness; showing that the Catholic Church has always, and with justice, put all her hope and trust in the Mother of God. And truly the Immaculate Virgin, chosen to be the Mother of God and thereby associated with Him in the work of man's salvation, has a favour and power with Her Son greater than any human or angelic creature has ever obtained, or ever can gain

Pope Leo X

Mother, Son, Men

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art, War, Men

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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

Joseph Hall

Christian, Mean, Blessing

Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley”, p.336

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[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

Carl Sagan

Science, Data, Ideas

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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

Winston Churchill

Real, Use, Tribes

"The Churchill you didn't know". Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

Louis Pasteur

Moving, Memorable, Science

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Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being hit by a drunk driver?"
They (in favour of gun control) must believe in the existence of a substantial number of persons who are willing and able to break serious laws such asthose prohibiting murder, assault, and robbery, yet who are not willing or able to break gun control laws. Dr.

Gary Kleck

Believe, Mean, Gun

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I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Ujjwal Nikam

Punishment, Purpose, Messages

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It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Iain Dowie

Football, Everton

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The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

John Motson

Football, Games, Balanced

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The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

John Stuart Mill

Children, Animal, Slave

John Stuart Mill, Stephen Nathanson (1875). “Principles of Political Economy (Abridged): With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.291, Hackett Publishing

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Can serving the mother be a favour? A son is only dedicated to serve the mother....The favour has been done by the party.

Narendra Modi

Mother, Party, Son

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With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

Kenneth Clarke

Hunting, Law, House

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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.

Sebastian Haffner

Fall, History, Atmosphere

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Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Louis Pasteur

Change, Discovery, Mind

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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, Men, Two

P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.189, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

Charles Dickens

Strong, Beer, Boys

Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.133

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In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

Huey Long

Fighting, Your Side, Political

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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

Herodotus

Design, Outcomes, Sound

Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.

Linda McQuaig

Fighting, Focus, Growth

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High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

Linda McQuaig

Class, Focus, Financial

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