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• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ideas, Greek, Arrogance

  Interview with Mehdi Hasan, www.newstatesman.com. June 18, 2010.

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• God and posterity will show me more favour

  Lady Jane Grey

  Show Me, Shows, Posterity

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• If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mind, Would Be, Firsts

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humble, Good Luck

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “A Damsel in Distress: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know how they've managed to make this law in their favor, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well?

  Moderata Fonte

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  "The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men".

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• Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

  Stephen King

  Song, Way, Puritan

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Past, Thinking, Way

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.183, Vintage

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Doing Me, Hunger, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Obvious, Skepticism, Bias

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• It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

  Herodotus

  Design, Outcomes, Sound

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.508, OUP Oxford

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• In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

  Huey Long

  Fighting, Your Side, Political

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• In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Insight, Accuracy

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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  Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.

  Ronaldinho

  Beautiful, Football, Games

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• Fortune favours the audacious.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Courage, Luck, Fortune

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• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Remembrance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

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• We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.

  George Osborne

  People, Want, Economic

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

  Iain Dowie

  Football, Everton

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• For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.

  Linda McQuaig

  Fighting, Focus, Growth

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• I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

  Ujjwal Nikam

  Punishment, Purpose, Messages

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• I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

  Philip Massinger

  Courtesy

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an Introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.189

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• I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Would Be, Way, Referendums

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• But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite to the great and mean, to the celebrated and obscure; the art of moderating the desires, of repressing the appetites; and of conciliating or retaining the favour of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Mislead Us

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1792). “The rambler”, p.233

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