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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.

  Jan Peacock

  Attention, May, Distraction

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• It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

  Billy Bragg

  Powerful, Dirty, Shining

  "End of the peer show" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2004.

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• If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

  Anthony Daniels

  Doe, Should, Circumstances

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• If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

  James Burgh

  Denial, May, Grants

  James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

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• What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Novices, Economy

  "Labour Conference: Gordon Brown's Speech in Full". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 23, 2008.

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• All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.

  Richard Summerbell

  Sex, Disease, Way

  "The Body Politic" (magazine), June 1983.

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• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

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• I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Order, People, House

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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• [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophy, College, Men

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• You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Dragons, Law

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• Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Important Hamlet, Paint

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Elephants, Design

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• When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Order, Joy, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

  Alan Lewis

  Games, Two, Rugby

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• I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Privilege

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• I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, People, Important

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• Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

  Horace

  Decision, Speech, Judgment

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• I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

  Michael Foot

  Party, People, Labour

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• To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

  Barbara Smoker

  Wise, Prayer, Hymns

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• Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

  James A.C. Brown

  Order, Two, Atheism

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• Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Grace, Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.49

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• We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Kyoto Protocol, Political, Climate

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• Kyoto costs a lot, does nothing to prevent calamity, and pays no compensation in the event of loss. If my insurance broker offered that sort of policy, I would not carry insurance. Instead what my broker offers is a policy that costs a little and pays full compensation in the event of loss. If someone wants to propose that as a policy on global warming, I'm all in favour.

  Ross McKitrick

  Loss, Kyoto Protocol, Want

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• In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Source, Enjoy, Benediction

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 12), 1990.

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