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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Being aware of challenges doesn't make them sting less, but once you see them, you can assess the best way to handle them.
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.
When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
I really did like 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' But not seeing women represented in that world, it definitely had less resonance for me.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.