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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

Big, Chance, Lives

History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

History, Less, Bunk

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr

Leaving, Less, Ourselves

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever, Question, Less

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

Character, Him, Less

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
George Eliot

Life, Nothing, Acting

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
Rudyard Kipling

Mad, Everyone, Point

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.
Richard Dawkins

Decision, Less, Bit

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
Earl Warren

Marriage, Women, Less

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Peace, Religion, Help

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Phil McGraw

Year, Less, Gonna

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Kurt Vonnegut

War, True, Pretty

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil

Human, Play, Less

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
Wes Anderson

Lonely, Together, Sometimes

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin

Time, Revolution, Impossible

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Paul McCartney

Time, Fool, Guitar

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
Robert Plant

Music, Character, Everything

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
Cat Stevens

Job, Down, Living

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis

Life, Art, Difficult

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson

Power, Wish, Less

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
Neil Gaiman

Different, Tell, Makes

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, American, Less

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Joseph Ratzinger

Strong, Evil, Person

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.
Peter Singer

True, Makes, Idea

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
Summer Altice

Yourself, Different, Trying

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Pope Benedict XVI

Strong, Evil, Person

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders

Yourself, Care, Job

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag

Art, Nothing, Less

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