“ I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ”
- Andre Agassi- Copy
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“ I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf. ”
- Joe Namath- Copy
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“ He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ When people get it into their heads that they are being specially favoured by the Almighty, they had better as a general rule mind their p's and q's. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Find a wife and you find a good thing; so you will earn the favour of the Lord. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ”
- William Ralph Inge- Copy
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“ However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. ”
- Pliny the Younger- Copy
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“ The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death. ”
- C. H.Spurgeon- Copy
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“ Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace. ”
- Arthur Henderson- Copy
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“ I played a lot of pool and went to the engineering bar where my brother was studying engineering. I was a real competent student, which is why I only lasted those six months in favour of a tap-dancing career. ”
- Adam Garcia- Copy
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“ While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful. ”
- Conrad Black- Copy
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“ I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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