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“I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis - I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids because the current war on drugs, the current model isn't working.”

Way War Hands Kids Drug Taxes Models Currents Favour War On Drugs Cannabis

Author:Justin Trudeau

“But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.”

May Art Government Natural Mankind Particular Letters Favour

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.”

Inspirational Favour

Author:Fiona Wood

“What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.”

Love Inspirational Needs Country Peace Ego Creating And Love South Colour Patriotic Communist South Africa Favour Suppressing Anti Racist

Author:Chris Hani

“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.”

Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.”

Way Individual Favour American Society

Author:Jacques Delors

“I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.”

Successful Information Investing Devices Investors Passive Favour Incorporating Stock Price

Author:Merton Miller

“The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.”

Ifs Should Looks Law Evil Found Jesus Enemy Blood Land Masters Hatred Wicked Righteous Disciple Favour Massacres

Book:Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50

Source: Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50

“The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.”

Men He Man Coins Favour

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.”

Ifs Doe Book Reader Sells Innocent Copies Publishing Favour Presentation

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”

Men World Way Born Forget Trouble This World Wind Adversity Sparks Sail Favour Probation

Book:Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Source: Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

“You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.”

Religion Enemy Favour

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source: Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith

“Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.”

“When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.”

Thinking Christian Goodness Favour

Author:John Knox

“Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous overgrowing and killing the more delicate. Every modification of climate, every disturbance of the soil, every interference with the existing vegetation of an area, favours some species at the expense of others.”

Source: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: including preliminary observations on the study of Indian botany; a summary of the labours of Indian botanists; a sketch of the meteorology of India; outlines of the physical geography and botany of the provinces of India: With 2 Maps. By J. D. Hooker and Thomas Thomson. Reprinted from the

“The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.”

Form Media Sentences Favour Typing Concise

Book:Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

Source: Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

“I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.”

People Thinking Has Beens Country Political Politics Rulers Other Countries Favour Disputes Presumption

Author:Edmund Burke

“When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.”

Men Want Firsts House Walks Feet Favors Favour Doing Me House Of Commons

Author:Agnes Macphail

“Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.”

Humanity Favour Indulge

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.”

Want Writing Persons Process Written Involved Reviews Favour Starving

Author:Edward St Aubyn

“If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.”

Ifs Looks Lost Term Emotion Television Vanity Favour

Author:Clive Anderson

“In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.”

Way Bigs Kids Environment Teaching Best Way Classroom Favour Stimulation One On One Extroverts

Author:Susan Cain

“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”

Source: Collected essays

“And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.”

World Life Might Enjoy Position Offers Leisure Favour Obliged

Author:Rene Descartes

“Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.”

People Trying Helping Business Sells Crowds Work Out Finance Favour

Author:John Templeton