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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.
Most states, for all their rhetoric in favour of free trade, are adept at trying to manipulate markets to protect and advantage their own producers.
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.
I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
I have made comments in favour of British people getting jobs over and above those from southern eastern Europe.
When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Stuff happens in football. Sometimes it goes in your favour, sometimes it doesn't.
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed
Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
The British people overwhelmingly favour big businesses and the wealthiest individuals contributing their fair share so we can invest in our schools, hospitals and services.
I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !
It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs and the construction industry went into decline.
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
One needs to redistribute and restructure expenditures in favour of infrastructure, education and so on. Such military expenditures are heavy to carry.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
God's decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.
Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.
I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
I am very in favour of children having a nap after lunch because then they're not whiney and grizzly by six o'clock.
I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you'll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it's the right thing to do.
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.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.
The country will never vote in favour of those who do not acknowledge Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.
