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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
Great
Man
Control
Laws
Greater
Conduct
Controls
Lesser
Right
Right Conduct
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia
Evil
Evils
Constantly
Still
Choosing
Lesser
Two
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
Pope Francis
Life
Abortion
Crime
Evil
Mafia
Absolute
Taking
Another
Does
Lesser
Save
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saying
Great
Words
Great Deal
Few
Nothing
Minds
Great Minds
Faculty
Talent
Talking
Deal
Much
Lesser
Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.
Miyamoto Musashi
Today
Learning
Yourself
Achieve
Victory
Tomorrow
Men
Yesterday
Warrior
Strategy
Spirit
Study
Over
Years
Your
Lesser
Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
Jeremy Irons
Together
Lose
Think
Society
Slightly
Civility
Dirty
Feel
Like
Because
Politeness
Cement
Then
Lesser
Binds
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Ego
Every
Other
Some
Only
Fact
Part
Greater
His
Normal
Normal Person
Person
In Fact
Psychotic
Average
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Extent
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato
Lie
Say
Well
Builders
Without
Stones
Lesser
Larger
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe
Day
Age
Other
Day And Age
Protest
Continue
Than
Human
Africa
Human Beings
Races
Should
Lesser
Beings
Treated
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
Good
Evil
Must
Temporarily
Never
Accept
Label
May
Lesser
Necessary
Necessary Evil
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence
Life
Religion
You
Heart
Will
Own
Second-Hand
Later
Fine
Seem
Ideals
Greater
Tradition
Dependent
Establish
Lesser
Thing
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Edwin Louis Cole
Time
Change
People
Crisis
Recognize
Smaller
Greater
Bigger
Successful
Successful People
Lesser
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
Thomas Goodwin
Great
Christ
Virtue
Honour
Though
Out
Seed
Abraham
Charter
Records
Writ
Like
Truly
Privilege
Us
Holy
Grant
Seal
Lesser
Search
Let Us
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Today
Will
Energy
Definitely
India
Per
About
More
Consumes
Developed
Develops
Lot
Than
Nations
Far
Require
Lesser
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian
Evil
Other
Invariably
Never
Open
Greater
Door
After
Lesser
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Billy Joel
Fool
Care
Been
dont Care
Lesser
Things
Brings
Consequence
'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.
Caterina Fake
Failure
You
Result
Country
Every
Too
President
Our
Kid
Shameful
Merit
American
Being
Succeeded
Unintended
Lesser
Belief
Every American
Consequence
I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.
John Darnielle
You
Writing
Think
Say
Tries
Somehow
More
Likely
Greater
Sneaking
Autobiographical
Less
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Things
Necessarily
Extent
Need
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
Kenneth L. Pike
Culture
Behavior
Control
Society
Members
Vary
Another
Greater
Methods
Controls
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Universal
Extent
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
Saint Basil
Light
Fall
Repentance
Others
Neglect
Virtues
Slight
Faults
Strive
Rather
Remain
Attain
Most
Make
Although
Greater
Repair
Quick
Commit
May
Grievous
Lesser
Large
Many
Even
Large Number
Number
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
Timothy Morton
Intimacy
Degrees
Totally
Only
Directly
Since
Known
Greater
Cannot
Lesser
Thing
'To the Bone' is autobiographical. It's written and directed by a woman; it's starring all women, apart from me and Keanu, who are in lesser parts, and it's produced by women.
Alex Sharp
Me
Woman
Women
Bone
All Women
Directed
Written
Parts
Autobiographical
Apart
Produced
Who
Lesser
There are dictators a bit worse than me, no? I'm the lesser evil already.
Alexander Lukashenko
Me
Evil
Worse
Bit
Dictators
Than
Lesser
A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.
Alun Wyn Jones
Draw
Evils
Take
Obviously
Loss
Going
Then
Lesser
Two
Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
Andrea Seigel
Age
World
Criticism
Teens
Enterprise
Alongside
Devolved
Always
Real
Came
Existed
Ultimately
The Real World
Real World
Viewers
Moment
Who
Lesser
I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.
Anushka Sharma
Only
Never
Like
Became
Felt
Discriminated
Experienced
After
Against
Lesser
Actor
Differently
Treated
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