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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. -- Marquis de Sade
Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. -- Alan Greenspan
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. -- Jean Giraudoux
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. -- Timothy Noah
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. -- Paul Eldridge
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. -- Paul Weyrich
The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling. -- Zig Ziglar
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order. -- Hanna Rosin
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime. -- John Ashcroft
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif. -- Bill Dedman
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. -- Armstrong Williams
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt. -- Richard Dawkins
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Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems. -- Derek Bok
What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be. -- Helen Mirren
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. -- Paul Goodman
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3. -- Beau Willimon
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired. -- Major Owens
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own. -- Ban Ki-moon
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Our information network is much better protected than our railroad network, and someone who cracks a system is able to cause far less human damage than someone who derails a train. Why, then, has 'computer crime' caused so much hysteria? Perhaps because the public is so willing - eager, even - to be scared by bogeymen. -- Charles Platt
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are. -- Jane Goodall
The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt. -- Roger Ebert
I'm far less a leader than a writer. -- Bill McKibben
Take the high road; it's far less crowded. -- Warren Buffett
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. -- Brad Meltzer
What we know is far less important than what we use. -- Kevin Eikenberry
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. -- Stendhal
As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less. -- James Hetfield
Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. -- Dwight Morrow
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ... -- Alan Greenspan
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. -- Lionel Shriver
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. -- Terry Pratchett
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. -- Virgil
Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. -- Andy Stanley
Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato. -- Wolfgang Pauli
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. -- Edward Gibbon
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. -- Vivienne Westwood
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. -- Mark Twain
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. -- Herman Melville
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. -- Eric Hoffer
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made. -- Otto von Bismarck
Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!" -- Ben Dreyfuss
It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future". -- Sandra Brown
Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record. -- Thomas Sowell
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. -- John F. Kerry
You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way. - Breeze -- Brandon Sanderson
Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography. -- Richard Summerbell
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. -- Max Beerbohm
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell. -- Jennifer Garner
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. -- William Gurnall
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. -- Bruce Jackson
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more. -- Mickey Leigh
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math. -- Mick Barr
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! -- Maurice Duplessis
You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself. -- Veronica Roth
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. -- Theodor Adorno
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children. -- Patricia Hill Collins
I brushed it until it shone and looked somewhat like it used to look,only far thinner, and less glorious. -- V.C. Andrews
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. -- Peter Drucker
I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films. -- Natalia Tena
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde
If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise. -- Watchman Nee
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. -- James Anthony Froude
I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite -- Rob Hopkins
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. -- Confucius
America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. -- Jeff Greene
In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. -- Atul Gawande
We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. -- Jean Anouilh
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch. -- Mary Roach
The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. -- Ed Rendell
Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place. -- Mario Savio
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less -- John Kenneth Galbraith
[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war. -- David Krieger
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. -- Blaise Pascal
Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible, -- Philip Jenkins
For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special. -- James Bovard
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. -- Aristotle
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. -- Juan Williams
The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand. -- Marc Bloch
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. -- Uell Stanley Andersen
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. -- D. H. Lawrence
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. -- Robert Morgan
While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar's transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do with each other. -- Ted Cruz
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. -- John M. McHugh
Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you. -- Augusten Burroughs
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. -- Paul Berg
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An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people. -- Oscar Arias
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy. -- Irving Kirsch
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line. -- Adrien Brody
We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart. -- Muriel Wace
Rated R movies are few and far between, nowadays. We're all seeing less and less rated R movies, and less and less of them are being made. -- Vin Diesel
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden. -- William James
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! -- Rudolph A. Marcus
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. -- Brandon Sanderson
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. -- Joseph Addison
If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology. -- Heidi Julavits
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. -- Ranjitsinhji
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape -- Alice James
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less. -- Thomas Sowell
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters. -- Lynda Resnick
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about. -- Carrie Fulton Phillips
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. -- Alice James
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime -- John Ashcroft

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