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• Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

  Ray Mabus

  Choices, Flying, Cost

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• Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

  Martial

  Pain, Joy, Thick

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• It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.

  Barry Switzer

  Football, Mistake, Team

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• There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

  Abraham Cowley

  Friends, Kings, Earth

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.232

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• It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than good. These overgrown mortals commonly use their will with their right hand; and their reason with their left.

  Jeremy Collier

  Hero, Hands, Use

  Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”

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• Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Play, Roles

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.42, Penguin

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• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Secret, Excellence

  John Ruskin (1868). “Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious”, p.155

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

  Agnes Repplier

  Two, Punctuation Marks, Eight

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• Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

  Margaret Mead

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Anxiety

  Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

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• Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, United States, Different

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• Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Humor, Thinking, Events

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.17, Bantam

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• Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Age, Fifty

  Ellen Goodman (1981). “At Large”

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• A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Friendship, Men, Reflection

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.50

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• We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stupid, Two, Support

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• We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Mother, Memories

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 341, 1895.

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• There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hands, Done, Discerning

  Jonathan Swift, Paul Anton Fedor Constantin POSSART (1831). “A Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books ... Mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von P. A. Fedor Possart”, p.114

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• The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Higher, Knows, Managers

  Russell L. Ackoff (2006). “A Little Book of F-Laws”, p.2, Triarchy Press Limited

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• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, Expression, People

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• The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Fighting, Blow

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• The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Children, Reality

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• Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

  Andrew Schneider

  Roots, Funeral, Biggie

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". "Northern Exposure/ Our Wedding", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1505, Delphi Classics

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• If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

  Mark Twain

  Ifs

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• There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
  rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Giving, Hours

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Let Me

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