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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Acceptance

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin

Death, Together, Two

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

Friendship, Friends, Whose

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson

Person, Moment, Theory

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Gay, Woman

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

Rights, Act, Necessary

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Him, Against

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

Life, Change, Truths

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice

Good, Yourself, Daily

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Hate, Everything, Honesty

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Law, Asked, Obedience

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Love, Brave, Fortune

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

Reason, Possible, Taxes

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
Mitt Romney

Human, Through, Research

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass

Men, Freedom, Ground

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Change, Great, Human

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman

Themselves, Values, System

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Gift, Punishment

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

Honest, Means, Few

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas Sowell

Productive, Holding, Meetings

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Bill Watterson

Why, Fair, Unfair

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Politics, Happy, Powerful

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian Tracy

Change, Control, Direction

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
Ann Coulter

Might, National, Democrats

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens

Two, Eye, Prejudice

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
James Madison

Government, Doubt, Found

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Women, Strong, Single

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

Different, Opinion, While

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
George Saunders

Life, Good, Truth

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt

Person, Regret, Pleasure

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