Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
Clifford Stoll
Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is more ape than many of the apes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
Michael Jordan
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.
Anne Frank
I have thanked him many times for telling me the way it was.
John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Ghandi
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother Teresa
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
William Shakespeare
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Orville Wright
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
Mahatma Gandhi
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee Williams
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent van Gogh
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Ann Landers
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.
Benjamin Franklin
Read much, but not many books.
Benjamin Franklin
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
Pythagoras
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
Cyril Connolly
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
Randy K. Milholland
Money buts many things...The best of which is freedom.
Mary Renault
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
Randy K. Milholland
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
George S. Patton
We're thankful to be counted among the many of you that are changing the world with your music and your lives.
Jon Foreman
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
Leo Durocher
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Edgar Watson Howe
Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar El sadat
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.
C. S. Lewis
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Many can argue; not many converse.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.
Samuel Johnson
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
George Carlin
I've seen these guys do this so many times...just being a part of it was definitely exciting, ... Getting a hit to contribute, it's definitely a good thing and hopefully we can keep it going for awhile.
Matt Lawton
This is something we've been looking forward to for many races -- Richmond. We wanted to get a good finish because it has bit us so many times.
Kurt Busch
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
There are so many outrageous things that have gone on in the context of the Enron debacle that the ordinary rules of logic don't seem to apply.
Mike Florio
We feel pretty good about having that many of our wrestlers seeded.
Rusty Mccroskey
The ball just wasn't dropping for us tonight, and Poland wasn't hitting many shots either.
Doug Sautter
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo
It's very nice to be here for more days. We have many more opportunities to see different areas and people and groups.
Morten Louring
The uncertainty gives them ammunition. How many executions they will actually succeed in delaying is unknown.
Kent Scheidegger
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.
Alberto Salazar
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes
Many of these girls treat their prom like they would treat their weddings.
Pat Wilders
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
Let's not forget who these immigrants are. They work hard, they pay taxes, and many have U.S. born children. It gives them the peace of mind that they can continue to work legally.
Jose Lagos
There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.
Bryan Pfeiffer
Ultimately, no matter how many projects you considered, you can't please everyone.
Henry Fawell
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
Alexander Pope
The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.
Rachel Bronson
A client has opportunities to do many different things.
Sherri Steilen
College is the first time many kids have real control of their money. It's very hard to keep good track of your expenses when you're living alone for the first time.
Jacqueline King
We have a few too many players. I think they will have their eye on an options exchange. That's where all the action is.
Michael Goldstein
That's the typical premium being paid, and that's a mistake for many buyers.
Wade Ragas
It usually takes a major tragedy for these things to come about, but not too many cities do this. I just felt it was needed.
Jerry Peterson
It is an understatement to say that you can win many games turning the ball over six times. Our guys could have just as easily given up, but instead we handled our adversity very well.
Blaine Hathcock
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
Oh, war shill we go w'en de great day comes, / Wid be blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums? / How many po' sinners'll be kotched out late / En find no latch ter de golden gate?
Joel Chandler Harris
CSC has built a strong reputation in the Chicago-area market, distributing some of the same brands of office automation equipment that we have in many of our locations.
Michael Shea
There are so many different estimates out there now. No matter how many people we get in, we will be able to help.
Whitney Ellis
This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to run drugs, you are going to do time in jail.
Andrew Arrington
Many Temple students came, ... We didn't even have to recruit them. They just came to help.
John Street
There are many unsecured access points right now (from apartments above the businesses).
Jared Colton
Because our audience is experiencing content in so many places these days, it's important not just to be a television company. One hopes the brand is powerful enough that your content is recognizable everywhere.
Brian Graden
I skate with my heart. My family has been there with me for so many years. Now, that's all gone.
Derek Parra
Naugatuck came out very fired up and was very aggressive, and we were flat. We were missing so many inside shots. Shots just weren't falling for us.
Nick Augelli
Maybe there won't be so many requests coming back to the Board as people have another source of funding.
Kirk Hayes
We lost 357 (Red River) jobs, and that's 357 items of disaster for a family in this day and time of expensive cars and high home payments and things. We can't consider it a victory when we have that many losses.
Ralph Hall
I hate to use the word 'failure' because, in fact, many of our people really did great stuff. [But] we had a failure of imagination. We didn't think big enough.
Jack Mcguire
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
Claudia Christian
What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes.
Howard Safir
There is no other media event in which we can reach so many beer drinkers at one time, which makes this a very efficient media buy for us.
Bob Lachky
We kept them in the game. We didn't come out with the intensity and we let them hang around until the end. We could have ended the game so many times.
Jonathan Mitchell
There were so many highs and lows. It was a classic Eastern/Central bout.
Brian Archibald
We gave away too many balls today because we were under pressure.
Tony Bauman
As a teacher, Jon's very professional and able to instruct people with many levels of cooking experience. No matter if you're a beginner or very experienced, you can always learn new things from him about cooking.
Mary Elaine Lozosky
You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.
Harv Bainter
We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.
Alan Herbert
Many chips work well enough for them to work in the system. Functional verification ensures that.
Brian Bailey
Nineteen free throws. We get her to the line that many times, that's a good sign.
Chris Strathman
I?m happy to be mentioned in the same breath as the No. 1 team. I don?t know how many people expected this and rightfully so.
Jim Reynolds
That drive was big for me. You don't get that many opportunities to get game experience and it was big for me to have some success out there. I needed it.
Koy Detmer
Every day they get more wrinkles. When we first got them they didn't have very many so I wondered if they were mixed. But now, they have so many that it's hard for some of them to open they're eyes, and when they sit down they all drop to the floor.
Julie Quinn
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer
We regret the hardship that this change will create for employees and the community. We have many fine workers at both locations and we plan to do everything we can to assist employees with the transition.
Catherine Misko
That tells us many have died, they fell through before they could swim.
John Grandy
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
Philip Andrew Adams
We had a whole list of things that we had to do if we were going to win this game. We did one of them by keeping them down early on. Then we committed too many turnovers and you just can't do that against them.
Steve Kelly
What you really have is a rogue agency. So many people give the SEC such wide latitude, but they have exceeded (their) legal authority.
Phil Goldstein
We'll go many years with basically no additional information on where it's headed.
Russell Schweickart
Many people are deficient in vitamin D. The easiest and most reliable way of getting the appropriate amount is from food and a daily supplement.
Cedric F. Garland
There's never enough. You can use as many you can get.
Frank Salbego
With a business system operating in nearly 200 countries, we are not immune to the economic difficulties that currently exist in many markets around the world.
M. Douglas Ivester
You look at the goal at the end of the [second] period and the shorthanded goal against. That's not going to win you too many games.
Trent Yawney
Things have improved better than expected but it was quite possible SARS would linger for many months more than it did.
Peter Hilton
By and large, it's a form of recreational entertainment for folks to spend their discretionary income. It's one of the many, many entertainment choices they have out there today.
Thomas O'donnell
Four years ago, many banks were insolvent or close to it because they were loaded down with a lot of bad loans, ... This was a drag on the economy, but many banks have been forced to merge or close.
William Kennedy
Even if we're extraordinarily successful ... at keeping the per capita costs limited, there has to be some way to finance care for that many people.
John Rother
This would cause many of the same problems as full repeal.
Lee Farris
We have a really long history of partnerships, and they are increasingly important. They have always been bread and butter, if you will. ... This is in many ways all about partnerships and how we fit together.
Wanda Yuhas
We have to work on it more because we're not usually going to get that many chances. We weren't good enough tonight.
Amado Guevara
It was difficult the way the news was conveyed, and it was difficult to see how many department heads he chose to remove, but that was his choice.
Linda Kingsley
We've seized a computer. We're going to be looking at that to try to trace back as many affiliates as we can.
John Stone
He gave voice to so many feelings that so many people had.
Ricardo Khan
There's not too many people that have been actually able to beat him the last two years or so.
Lleyton Hewitt
Searching for diversified yields, both in and outside the U.S., is the way to go. Many investors have discovered this.
Linda Duessel
If one indicator is bad, it can in many respects drive the overall result of the index.
Andy Whitaker
It was a real disappointing loss for the kids. We expected to win going in. It's just a tough loss when it comes down to one point. There are so many different things to look at, but Bret Harte deserves credit. They wrestled really well.
Vince Bicocca
It just seems impossible to comprehend. Just how many did we kill? I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this or I might say My God what have we done.
Robert Lewis
There's so many things that we could do.
Ashley Olsen
There's so many variables in our sport. We try to minimize the likelihood of something going wrong.
Alex Izykowski
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.
Nia Vardalos
It was very back and forth. We had too many turnovers in the end. Jeremy Hatch had a really nice game on the boards.
Shawn French
Many of you walked in here undocumented, and you will leave here as activists.
Niall O'dowd
We work with the county as many times as we can. But we know our limitations.
Kathy Lawson
We applaud Tyson for their compassion towards so many who have suffered through the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Marc Morial
Many admire, few know.
Hippocrates
There are so many things that happen on the ice that beg ... explanation.
Bill Clement
We won't see many cattle turned out to the pastures before the end of April this year. The grass just isn't greening up. It's too dry.
Mike Holder
They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good offense and we just have to concentrate on that.
Darryl Sydor
This is only one of the many things Sony must do to be accountable for the damage it's inflicted on its customers.
Jason Schultz
Contractors are a good barometer and they were complaining loudly and long. Many of them said they would turn in an incomplete bid or would not bid.
James Clough
How many are just on paper?
Don Porter
Goes a long way to allowing us to demonstrate that many, if not most, Site Q monuments were looted from La Corona.
Marcello Canuto
He gets a little crazy but he's just an intense coach. He's played the game for so many years. It's as if he wishes he was still out there with us.
Patrick Carriere
It's such a sacred place. So many people have played there.
Carrie Underwood
We have to come back, get better, get ready and get focused for Grove City, and sectional, district and state and see how many guys we can get out.
Jerry Mcswords
Sometimes I just can't understand why so many people in one family have it when it's not hereditary.
Betty Gard
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
Tom Cruise
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Donald R. Gannon
I could tell you how many steps he took from the dirt to the grass.
Danny Graves
I don't really think too many guys are really worried about it. You hear (about) it in the media and stuff, but I don't think it's a concern for too many guys.
Wayne Primeau
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
Billy Sherwood
I could not believe that many people in the community would do that for us.
Shirley West
There are many different types of viruses.
Gordon Mills
The days of true oddsmakers are gone. There aren't many guys in town like that anymore.
Robert Walker
The idea of training the brain gives us hope. I think many of us are overly frightened of getting old, or even refuse to admit it.
Rika Kayama
Cardiovascular disease is already the leading cause of death in many Asian populations, but the relationships between risk factors and cardiovascular disease can differ in Asian and Western populations.
Mark Woodward
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah
I will make a decision on how many matches I should play for Essex after the Sri Lanka tour.
Danish Kaneria
We do not yet know how many lives have been lost through exhaustion, war or outright killing. There's no doubt the 60-day deadline ...presents us with really a daunting task. There are huge obstacles.
Sadako Ogata
Too many people feel like they're getting the runaround, so they're susceptible to books like this.
Arthur Caplan
It's a terrible loss. We had so many chances.
Marlon Byrd
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