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“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom.”

“There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!”

“Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances, clothes, toys, and bills than to have the whole world and lose your soul. Better something paid for that's used and enjoyed and shared and worn out than something nice and shiny and new that won't be paid for until 2019 and that you're too stressed to enjoy. Better a little with the fear of the Lord than more of what everyone else has. Better than normal, instead of normal is best.”

World Soul Whole Fear Enjoy Lord Normal Best Fewer Stressed Better Lose The To A Little And Is Everyone Have For Your Without Lot Too Has Instead Than Else

Book:Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.”

Film Commit Fewer Cents Recycling

Author:Jodie Foster

“Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.”

People Mean Taxes Fewer Revenue

Author:Christina Romer

“But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.”

People Ifs School Young Music Is Musical Fewer Implications Musical Education

Author:Johannes Rau

“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.”

People Believe Facts Shows Jobs Media Television Percent Average Profit Customers Neighborhood Fewer Twelve Good Job Eighty Margins Surveys Profit Margin

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.”

People Writing Believe Character Half China Chinese Fewer Strokes Chairman Mao Chairman Mao

Author:David Tang

“More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.”

Book Christian Christian Inspirational Fewer

Author:Vance Havner

“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.”

Children Parent Fewer Health And Education

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.”

People Ifs Years Helping Lasts Night Social Security Benefits Debt Farmers Fewer Telephones Social Security Last Night Constituents Subsidies Vermont

Author:Peter Welch

“For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.”

People Years May Government Past Interest Laughing Judging Economics British Ridiculous Statements Fewer Businessman National Interests British Government

Author:Neal Ascherson

“Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.”

Thinking Way Stars Player Keys Lows Depth Deeper Firm Fewer Benches Low Key

Author:William D. Cohan

“All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”

Men World Book Order Please Guides Magazines Articles Fewer

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.”

Ifs Willing Shapes Boxes Encounters Chocolate Fewer Filling Assorted

Book:Good intentions

Source: Good intentions

“When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.”

People Ifs World Real Asks Break Minutes Happenings Nuclear Trends Fewer Break Out Demographics Fads Living Alone Nuclear Families

Author:Peter York

“Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.”

Needs Years Today Support Trouble Bird Following Fewer Yards Insects Gardener

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.”

Way Lines Learning Amount Code Programming Software Fewer Flew Ibm

Author:Bill Gates

“Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Men May Made Stills Poor Rich Our Lives Growing Roots Hills Heavenly Fewer Dew Lilies

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.”

Believe Wish Virtue Fewer

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the main thing is, does it hold good measure Heaven soon sets right all other matters!”

Doe Matter Heaven Treasure Merit Flaws Fewer Preacher Preaching Vessel

Author:Robert Browning

“Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.”

Ifs Want Needs Enjoy Wonder Fewer Erotic Affiliation

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”

Thinking Virtue Strange Vices Fewer Vice And Virtue

Author:Alexander Pope

“The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.”

Writing Humans May Stills Lasts Dies Written Heard Mountain Speech Leaving Wave Remembered Sand Fewer Fades Echoes Discourse Permanence Fade Away Tokens Human Thought Tidal Waves

Author:Albert Pike

“I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.”

World I Can Helping Company Illusion Fewer

Author:Noel Coward

“Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.”

“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

Want Mean Mistake Impossible Simplicity Fewer Reduction

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.”

Men World War America Force Enemy Military Weakness Europe Army War Of The Worlds Fewer World War I Aggression Uniforms Nazi Pearls Invited Harbors Pearl Harbor Attack

Author:Frank Gaffney

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.”

Stills Heaven Stars Holes Fewer

Author:Jack Johnson

“I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.”

Children I Can Care Rights Imagine Access Health Care My Children Fewer Imagine That

Author:Cecile Richards

“Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.”

Needs Asks Interest Views Percent Currents Alternatives Therapy Abandoned Fewer Physicians Status Quo Personal Views

Author:David Eisenberg

“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.”

Mean Real Government Strong Results Cities Path Doubt Effects Honest Improvement No Doubt Employee Fewer Efficient Aggression Ripple Wrongdoing Wrong Path Ripple Effect City Government

Author:David Hoffman

“The by-product of fewer technical support issues is also an increase in customer satisfaction, which can be reflected in reduced subscriber churn.”

Support Issues Products Increase Satisfaction Customers Fewer Customer Satisfaction

Author:Patrick Fitzgerald

“Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.”

Safety Noise Fewer Justification Landing Runway Takeoff

Author:David Shore

“Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.”

People Use Truth Is Speech Fewer

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.”

War Use Purpose Humanity Fighting Car Army Stronger Intelligent Owners Mma Engines Fewer Units Tanks Garage True Purpose

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.”

People Happens Would Be Silent Crowds Trauma Native Fewer Gloves Knockouts

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.”

Running Difficult Conflict Trade Firm Fewer Trade Offs

Author:Dan Gelber

“Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.”

People Men Known Rich Failing Hundred Fewer Rich Man Bloodsuckers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.”

Years Humans Two Three Materials Three Years Fewer Haste Without Hope

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.”

Ifs Years Hard Jobs Lucky Entertainment Fewer Old Woman

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.”

May Food Eating Cooking Drinking Culinary Fewer Alcoholics Beverages

Author:Marian Burros

“If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.”

Ifs Pleasure Common Opinion Crime Ignorance Habit Democratic Vices Scales Fewer Display Brilliance Outrageous Wellbeing Vigorous Aristocracy Democratic Society Wretchedness

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.”

Knows Men Secret He Man Female Fewer Clients Sophia

Author:Giovanna Cau

“Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.”

Example Transition Fewer Fossils Biological Evolution

Author:David M. Raup

“Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Facts Government Would Be Poor Fit Republican Program Sorry Selfish Welfare Fewer Proliferation Insensitive Welfare Programs

Author:Andy Rooney

“As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.”

Remember Interest Class Republican Democrat Fewer Capitalist

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

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