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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. -- Igor Stravinsky
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less. -- Pete Sampras
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough. -- Jill Stein
Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis. -- Idries Shah
I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.' -- Randa Haines
Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles -- Robert Ludlum
Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all. -- Andrzej Sapkowski
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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. -- George Orwell
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. -- Mark Twain
There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another. -- Jasmine Guy
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. -- Jerry Garcia
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. -- H. Allen Smith
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. -- Billy Joel
I think I should be here alone to rethink the world - I do. I want these lesser humans gone. -- Roseanne Barr
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. -- Margaret Mead
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. -- Robert Mugabe
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. -- Aldo Leopold
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. -- Miyamoto Musashi
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. -- Sigmund Freud
The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office. -- Roseanne Barr
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? -- Ronnie James Dio
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person. -- Grimes
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. -- Cyril Connolly
I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. -- Rufus Sewell
My absolute favorite growing up was 'Super Friends.' The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes. -- Michael Ian Black
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. -- Camille Paglia
War has never been nor ever shall be the lesser of two evils -- K.C. McGee
Woman is the lesser man. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The lesser evil is also evil. -- Naomi Mitchison
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. -- Confucius
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. -- Dan Brown
Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser? -- lecrae
Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls. -- Pete Yorn
The lesser of two evils is still evil. -- Solomon
The God gives simpler problems to lesser men. -- Brent Weeks
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires. -- Horace
Of two evils, I always choose the lesser. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils. -- Jon Stewart
I think people of lesser talent will become stars. -- Howard Stern
Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside. -- V. S. Naipaul
You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines. -- silent lotus
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal. -- Tupac Shakur
You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents. -- Gary Snyder
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils. -- George Orwell
Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer. -- Betty Jane Wylie
You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self. -- Neil Strauss
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt. -- William Shakespeare
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal. -- Andrew Lam
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none. -- William James
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego. -- Albert Einstein
Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. -- McGeorge Bundy
Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things. -- Xun Zi
I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils. -- Gene Weingarten
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes. -- Herodotus
After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated. -- G. Ledyard Stebbins
If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil. -- Ralph Nader
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. -- David Alan Grier
Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement. -- Gerald Celente
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. -- Ernest Sosa
That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more -- J.R. Ward
There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias. -- Phyllis Rose
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. -- Rajneesh
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" -- Mignon McLaughlin
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. -- Plato
It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils. -- Meg White
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. -- Jerry Garcia
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. -- Carlisle Floyd
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. -- Robert Breault
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. -- Confucius
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime. -- Paul Simon
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. -- G. Willow Wilson
The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I vote because even the lesser of two evils is the lesser of two evils. -- Ellen Goodman
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. -- Otto von Bismarck
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. -- Max Lerner
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? -- Jacqueline Carey
Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. -- T. D. Jakes
Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual? -- Raphael Lemkin
Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum -- Thomas a Kempis
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. -- James Richardson
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. -- Edwin Louis Cole
If we do not worship God, God will not be the lesser for it. But we will. -- Kevin DeYoung
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. -- Lauren Oliver
Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream... -- Diablo Cody
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents. -- Aristotle
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things. -- Brian Tracy
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. -- Chris Murray
I showed myself a lesser version of myself that night, and I'm glad I learned from it. -- Johnny Weir
Luxury whose quiet swiftness bestowed a sense of power, wielded casually as some lesser god might do. -- Raymond Z. Gallun
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil. -- Penn Jillette
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. -- Walter Lippmann
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. -- Gore Vidal
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions. -- Thomas Nagel
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance. -- Wes Fesler
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds. -- Will Durant
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. -- Baltasar Gracian
We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. -- Robert Breault
The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater. -- Shaun Hick
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. -- Howard Dean
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. -- Rose Macaulay
If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice. -- Michael Neill
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed. -- William Monahan
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that. -- Hank Green
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. -- Thomas Hobbes
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots. -- P. G. Wodehouse
We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them. -- Sandranil Biswas

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