Favors Quotes - Page 17

• As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.

  Leslie Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Giving, Asks

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• The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

  Ira Remsen

  Honesty, Believe, Teaching

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• Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

  B. B. Warfield

  Grace, Sovereign, Ill

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• Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Government, Psychology

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• The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.

  A. V. Dicey

  Sight, Evil, Liberty

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• Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.

  Lawrence Fertig

  Government, People, Support

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• It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Truth, Science, Errors

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• The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of the age will not tolerate in the devotee of science a quiet indifference.

  John Gorrie

  Truth, Science, Animal

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• It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Ruins

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• You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Integrity, Patriotic, Heart

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• How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

  Rabia Basri

  Gratitude, Blessing, Hands

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• This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs from the other sacraments in that it not only produces grace, but contains in a permanent manner the Author of Grace Himself. When, therefore, the Church bids us to adore Christ hidden behind the Eucharistic veils and to pray to Him for spiritual and temporal favors, of which we ever stand in need, she manifests faith in her divine Spouse who is present beneath these veils, she professes her gratitude to Him, and she enjoys the intimacy of His friendship

  Pope Pius XII

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Strong

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• Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Grace, Four

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• I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Safety, Criticism

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Moving, Commitment

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• Chance favors those who are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Wrestling, Chance, Prepared

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• My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

  Ernest Gallo

  Life, Change, Teacher

  "ERNEST GALLO: 1909-2007 / With brother, he created world's biggest winery" by W. Blake Gray, Steve Rubenstein, www.sfgate.com. March 7, 2007.

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• I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Order, Perfection

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• I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice.

  Kurt Rambis

  Humor, Multiple Choice, Long

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Kings

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• I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

  Hezekiah Walker

  Missing Someone, Blessed, Destiny

  Song: God Favored Me Pt. 1

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• This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34. Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it. Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level. As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life."

  Jon Stewart

  Morning, Mean, Circles

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• The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Secret, Owing, Thanks

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

  J. William Fulbright

  Ideas, Ethics, Virtue

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House

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