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• I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working.

  Justin Trudeau

  War, Kids, Hands

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• Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

  Sloane Crosley

  Two, Jumping, Cooking

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". Interview with Eric Klinenberg, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  Umberto Eco

  Men, Long, Community

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• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.

  Stephane Hessel

  Mother, Promise, Said

  "Stéphane Hessel fought injustice all his great life" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

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• It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Winning, Finding The One, Risk

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Owners, Capitalist, Stills

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• A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Names, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (1964). “Collected works of John Stuart Mill”

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• Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.

  Jack London

  Loss, Men, Brain

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mind, Would Be, Firsts

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humble, Good Luck

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “A Damsel in Distress: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

  Stephen King

  Song, Way, Puritan

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Hate, Frustration, Peaceful

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• The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

  Joel Osteen

  Law Of Attraction, Creator, Lining Up

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• People who plead with you for favours
  May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
  Your friends are only those
  Who all the time cheerfully support
  Your heart's aspiration-flames.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Friends, Heart, Flames

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• Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Business, Fickle, Television

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter force or the organic synthesis which is a negative form of quality - The Organic Vacuum - that reunites the polar and the increasing to the favour of the uprising of a new life form.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Nature, Uprising, Missing

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• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ideas, Greek, Arrogance

  Interview with Mehdi Hasan, www.newstatesman.com. June 18, 2010.

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• Chance favours a prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Mind, Chance, Prepared

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• I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Guitar, Piano

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• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Majority, Finance, Polls

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• "But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?

  Moderata Fonte

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".

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• O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Powerful, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.79

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• People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

  Anthony de Mello

  Pain, People, Progress

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.117, Image

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