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“More money" will not solve any global issue because it is the root cause of the problem.”
Source: Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
“More murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. Over one hundred, it's too hot to move. Under ninety, cool enough to survive. But right at ninety-two degrees lies the apex of irritability, everything is itches and hair and sweat and cooked pork. The brain becomes a rat rushing around a red-hot maze. The least thing - a word, a look, a sound, the drop of a hair and - irritable murder. Irritable murder, there's a pretty and terrifying phrase for you.
- Touched with Fire”
Source: THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
“More muslims die from Islamist extremism than any other people. So don't you dare tell me, Islam is the same as Islamism! Islam is a people, Islamism is a sickness, just like Christianity is a people, Christian nationalism is a sickness - Hinduism is a people, Hindutva is a sickness - Atheism is a people, militant atheism is a sickness. And unless the peaceloving humans from each of these communities reach out to one another with a hand of integration, the nutcases from each of these communities will drag us all down the road of death and despair.”
Source: Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz
“More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.”
“More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.”
“More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.”
“More of America’s problems than even DJ had imagined could be better understood and addressed with better access to the right information. The problem of excessive police force was another example. After a white policeman shot a defenseless black man in Ferguson, Missouri, the White House convened police chiefs from ten American cities, along with their data. The policing data was local and difficult to get ahold of—and that was DJ’s point. He wanted to show what might be possible if the government collected the information. “We asked the question: What causes excessive use of police force?” Combing the data from the ten cities, a team of researchers from several American universities found a pattern that would be hard to spot with the naked eye. Police officers who had just come from an emotionally fraught situation—a suicide, or a domestic abuse call in which a child was involved—were more likely to use excessive force. Maybe the problem wasn’t as simple as a bad cop. Maybe it was the emotional state in which the cop had found himself. “Dispatch sent them right back out without time to decompress,” said DJ. “Give them a break in between and maybe they behave differently.”
Source: The Fifth Risk
“More of me comes out when I improvise.”
“More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.”
“More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.”
“More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.”
“More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.”
“More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.”
“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”
Source: Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary
“More often and more insistently as that time recedes, we are asked by the young who our "torturers" were, of what cloth were they made. The term torturers alludes to our ex-guardians, the SS, and is in my opinion inappropriate: it brings to mind twisted individuals, ill-born, sadists, afflicted by an original flaw. Instead, they were made of the same cloth as we, they were average human beings, averagely intelligent, averagely wicked: save the exceptions, they were not monsters, they had our faces, but they had been reared badly. They were, for the greater part, diligent followers and functionaries, some frantically convinced of the Nazi doctrine, many indifferent, or fearful of punishment, or desirous of a good career, or too obedient. All of them had been subjected to the terrifying miseducation provided for and imposed by the schools created in accordance with the wishes of Hitler and his collaborators, and then completed by the SS "drill." Many had joined this militia because of the prestige it conferred, because of its omnipotence, or even just to escape family problems. Some, very few in truth, had changes of heart, requested transfers to the front lines, gave cautious help to prisoners or chose suicide. Let it be clear that to a greater or lesser degree all were responsible, but it must bee just as clear that behind their responsibility stands that the great majority of Germans who accepted in the beginning, out of mental laziness, myopic calculation, stupidity, and national pride the "beautiful words" of Corporal Hitler, followed him as long as luck and lack of scruples favored him, were swept away by his ruin, afflicted by deaths, misery, and remorse, and rehabilitated a few years later as the result of an unprincipled political game.”
“More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.”
Source: The Pirate Ruse
“More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive”
“More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.”
“More often than not, a statist's argument against Anarchism boils down to an unwillingness to take control and responsibility for their own lives, actions, and communities. The sad truth is that the human animal has been domesticated to the point where it actually fears Liberty.”
“More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions.”
“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”
“More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.”
Source: Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two
“More often than not, bad things only seem big because they talk themselves up in our head.”
“More often than not, broken bonds are due to falling out of frequency with one another. When you cannot explain why you no longer talk or why things don’t feel the way they used to, it is because the frequency you are vibrating at no longer aligns with the frequency of that friendship. You are no longer a match for each other because your growth has taken you down a different path.”
Source: Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers: The self-love guide to growing, healing and learning to put yourself first
“More often than not, dating a man's potential is the long road to disaster, so listen to who he says he is and take him at his word. If you can love who he is now and not have your attraction be based on who he might become, then you're in good shape. If you're not, well, then you best keep looking because most people have different aspirations than you might have for them.”
Source: It's Just a F***ing Date: Some Sort of Book About Dating
“More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“More often than not, DID is dissimulated and camouflaged, so it is important to understand that, although its processes and structures may be active and powerful, its manifestations may be subtle.”
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
“More often than not, extreme events revert to the mean—the average—for no other reason than that result is more likely.”
Source: Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money
“More often than not he wore jeans with at least half a dozen holes, flip-flops that made him look like he was heading to the beach and a T-shirt, usually with a snarky saying. Today’s offering was “Heavily armed, easily pissed.”
Source: Echoes at Dawn
“More often than not, I get lost in magical melancholic emotions and thoughts just to get a vacation from the boring realities of life.”
“More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you or the world has changed.”
“More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.”
“More often than not, it's better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favour of faith that things will work out fine.”
“More often than not, leaving a cult environment requires an adjustment period, not only to reintegrate into “normal” society but also to put the pieces of yourself back together in a way that makes sense to you. When you first leave a cultic situation, you may not recognize yourself. You may not know how to identify the problems you are about to face. You may not have the slightest idea who you want to be. The question we often ask children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” suddenly takes on a new meaning for adult ex-cult members (p. 1).”
Source: Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships
“More often than not- Life moves really fast! It's only for you to pause and breathe! Sadly, none else can do that for you!”
“More often than not moral richness ensues material meagerness.”
“More often than not, no sooner have you glimpsed a beautiful thing, than it will become a great danger to you in one way or another.”
Source: Where The Waves Break Upon The Shore
“More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?”
“More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.”
“More often than not, rhetoric is an attempt to sell a facsimile of the truth to those who have probably already purchased it.”
“More often than not, solutions need to be systemic in order to cultivate meaningful and lasting results.”
“More often than not, star-crossed lovers are their own worst enemies.”
Source: Scions
“More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away.”
“More often than not the love that you give yourself will be a reflection of the love you give yourself. If you can't treat yourself with kindness, care and patience, chances are someone elese won't either.”
Source: Everything I Know About Love
“More often than not, the most significant asset may not be on the balance sheet.”
“More often than not, the optimum tends to be the mean of its pros and cons.”
“More often than not, the people around me weren’t simply deciding to give up. They were living in a culture of dependency that had been passed down from birth. My mother and grandmother gave in to the culture. And they expected me to figure out the best way to live on that same track, to game the system and not even try to escape.
My friend Ben agrees. 'Most of the time, what you see in the housing projects are generations of families,' he says. 'People accustomed to this lifestyle. It becomes comfortable, so they don’t move away, and even their children stay and raise kids in the same environment.' In neighborhoods like the ones where Ben and I grew up, there is no perceived incentive to advance. After all, the checks for housing and the food stamps and assistance arrive every month.”
Source: Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
“More often than not, the people around me weren’t simply deciding to give up. They were living in a culture of dependency that had been passed down from birth. My mother and grandmother gave in to the culture. And they expected me to figure out the best way to live on that same track, to game the system and not even try to escape.
My friend Ben agrees. 'Most of the time, what you see in the housing projects are generations of families,' he says. 'People accustomed to this lifestyle. It becomes comfortable, so they don’t move away, and even their children stay and raise kids in the same environment.' In neighborhoods like the ones where Ben and I grew up, there is no perceived incentive to advance. After all, the checks for housing and the food stamps and assistance arrive every month.
This is why the system must be reformed. Welfare should exist only for a certain period of time, unless you’re disabled and can’t physically work. It should not last for a generation or more. There are millions of jobs open, without enough people to fill them or, rather, without enough people who have the necessary skills and training. This is where the government should come in, providing incentives for real-world training and educating recipients about a life beyond government dependence.”
Source: Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
“More often than not, the secret of success lies in the very basic the very small wins. The small, consistent and disciplined steps lead to big successes.”
Source: small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era