Favors Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Party, Differences

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.208

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• Believe in yourself.. in all you can do.. and for you, the deals will start to work in your favor. You need to be open to such deals, and they will come, I assure you.

  Ivana Trump

  Business, Work, Believe

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• Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Stupid, Sleep

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• God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.

  Robert Lee Wolverton

  Sacrifice, Enemy, Battle

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• I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.

  Ujjwal Nikam

  Justice, Would Be, Death Penalty

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• It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Death Penalty, Affinity, Penalties

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• It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.

  Gerald Kogan

  Florida, Years, Punishment

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• The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

  Bob Butterworth

  Death Penalty, Penalties, Method

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Death Penalty

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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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• I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Want, Way, Despicable

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.9, Profile Books

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• Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane.

  Edward Hallowell

  Children, Airplane, Creativity

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• Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

  Saint Basil

  Letting Go, Doctrine, Scripture

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• The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

  Pope Francis

  Marijuana, Suffering And Death, Drug

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• Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Heart, Love Is

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• The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always sloppily or dishonestly. A specimen I've seen on more occasions than I can count is the line (usually presented with a sense of witty originality) "if you are opposed to economic rationalism, you must be in favor of economic irrationalism"... I've come to the conclusion that the word "rational" has no meaning that cannot better be conveyed by some alternative term and that the best advice is probably to avoid it altogether.

  John Quiggin

  Witty, Advice, Alternatives

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• Forget favors given; remember those received.

  John Wooden

  Remember, Forget, Given

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.201, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

  Seymour Papert

  Learning, Thinking, Way

  "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas". Book by Seymour Papert, 1980.

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• I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

  Calvin Trillin

  Immigration, Restaurants, Effects

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• Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.

  Ken Wilber

  Fashion, Business, Mean

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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