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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.
With grooming, less is more. I like to smell good, so will use a fragrance like Boss Bottled. I don't overdo it, but I moisturise daily, too.
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Overall, 'Singularity' has a certain lightness to it compared to 'Immunity.' It's less closed off; it doesn't have that claustrophobic sound.
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it looks less creepy with long hair. Like a wild look.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
You'd rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that's going to last than pay less money for a headshot that's not good enough.
I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.
The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.