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The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
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The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman). -
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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