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• The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Teaching, Rome

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, World, Might

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• Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.

  John Templeton

  Business, People, Work Out

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• I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.

  Thomas Howes

  Remember

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• I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.

  Paul McGann

  Fun, Nice, Theatre

  "This much I know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Lavender, Cupboards

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illus”, p.339

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• The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Giving Up, Awards, People

  "Invictus - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Past, Comfort

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.118, MIT Press

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• I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dream, Believe, Eye

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• I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving Up, Gun, Men

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• Men are never attached to you by favours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Favors

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• At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my mind first should be rejected in favour of better ideas. I learned that my imagination Wasn’t ‘good’ enough. I learned that the first idea was unsatisfactory because it was (1) psychotic; (2) obscene; (3) unoriginal. The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

  Keith Johnstone

  School, Ideas, Imagination

  Keith Johnstone (2017). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Women, Home, Average

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• I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Poison Gas, Tribes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.375, RosettaBooks

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• Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Return, Helping

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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• Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

  Alan Greenspan

  Dark, Giving, People

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• In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

  Susan Cain

  Teaching, Kids, Extroverts

  "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Mean

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• Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.

  Steven Moffat

  Country, Apology, Men

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• Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

  Benny Hill

  Birth Control, Abstinence, Born

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• You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expression, Games, Play

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.10

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• Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Income, Chance

  1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

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• While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

  Conrad Black

  Powerful, Exercise, Men

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