Favors Quotes - Page 22

• A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

  Robert Cialdini

  Successful, People, Principles

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

  Larry Wall

  Use, Absence, Enough

  Usenet article <20031213210102.GE18685@wall.org>, groups.google.com. December 14, 2003.

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• We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Strong, Nuclear

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• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Liberation, Animal Liberation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Age, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

  James E. Grunig

  Communication, Research, Rewards

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• I think one of the areas of favor and grace that God has allowed us to see is internally he's just given us a strong sense of work ethic and craftsmanship. We really do work hard to make GOOD quality music.

  LeCrae

  Strong, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

  Amelia Barr

  Spiritual, Spirituality

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.316, Litres

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Loss, Evil

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• I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, White, Differences

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.132, Penguin

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• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  Rumi

  Strong, Buddhist, Loss

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Love Is Reckless”

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• I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Feet, Justice

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.10

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• I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Fighting, Gay

  "Obama's past statements on same-sex marriage". www.foxnews.com. May 9, 2012.

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• "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

  Barack Obama

  Running, Sex, Gay

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• A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Buddhist, Being Thankful

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• Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Suicidal, Gone, Use

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• Chance favors those in motion.

  James H. Austin

  Inspirational, Basketball, Chance

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• [T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.

  Tyler Burge

  Philosophical, Special, Example

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• Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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• Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Faith, Rip, Inspiration

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• Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground.

  Price Pritchett

  Thinking, Impact, Hands

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

  Eskinder Nega

  Country, Race, Ethnicity

  "Nelson Mandela Was Released From Prison After 27 Years. These 10 Political Prisoners Are Still Waiting" By Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2013.

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• For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

  Denise Hunter

  Religious, Winning, People

  Denise Hunter (2014). “Big Sky Romance Collection: A Cowboy's Touch, The Accidental Bride, The Trouble with Cowboys”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices, and to add my expression to the sentiment among our people in favor of the realization of the age-old aspirations of the Jewish people for the restoration of their national homeland.

  Herbert Hoover

  Appreciation, Men, Expression

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Political, Ownership

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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