Quotes with favor

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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • John Keats I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ann Coulter I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • George Carlin I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
    Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Henry Kissinger If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Brad Feld If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Blake Edwards If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
    Blake Edwards
    American filmmaker (1922 - 2010)
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  • Lewis E. Lawes If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
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  • Edward Young Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Benjamin Tucker In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Dean William R. Inge It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Oscar Wilde Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Greenspan Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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