Favors Quotes
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.
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Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
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I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
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Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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Chance favors only those who court her.
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
