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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Far, Action

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge, Yourself, May

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Children, Friends

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

Envy, America, Far

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm

Give, Far, Less

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
Paul Eldridge

Love, Jealousy, Passion

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis de Sade

Truth, Far, Less

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.
Maureen O'Hara

Time, Great, Freedom

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
Juan Williams

Heart, Daily, Violence

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
Paul Weyrich

Children, Parents, Far

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
Jean Giraudoux

Waiting, Far, Less

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Bruce Jackson

Passion, Often, Far

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Armstrong Williams

Work, Time, Home

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
Marian Wright Edelman

End, Poverty, Child

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
Major Owens

Time, Money, Computers

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
John Buchanan Robinson

Money, Far, Times

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
John Ashcroft

Far, Makes, Less

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Erwin Schrodinger

Able, Fact, Far

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
Charles Vest

Science, Technology, Real

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.
David Brock

Political, Reason, Matter

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.
Adrien Brody

Money, Parents, Far

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Paul Berg

Far, Less, Events

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
Rudolph A. Marcus

Decision, Far, Point

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
Judith Rossner

Time, Courage, Yourself

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
John Lawson

Far, Less, Common

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman

Food, Done, After

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.
Terri Sewell

Great, Person, Wrong

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