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Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect is accusation the intimation of a less-than.

Law & Gospel

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Les Misérables

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Letters and Papers from Prison

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Less Than Words Can Say

Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.

The Lost Sisterhood

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Less Than Words Can Say

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Little Women

Jews are estimated to be less than 1% of the world's population yet approximately 25% of the world's billionaires are Jewish.

The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Shine, Coconut Moon

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

What is it about your race that none of you can seem to properly weigh your own value? Every human seems to think more of herself than she should, or less of herself than is sensible!

Starless Night

Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

If I found money, I’d turn it in—for the reward. Unless the reward money was less than the value of the money I found, and obviously it would be, in which case I’d keep the money.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Sputnik Sweetheart

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?

Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers

It was in this pub he'd learnt that, contrary to the belief of the majority of those laying bets, it possible to flatten a hundred frogs with a hammer in less than thirty seconds. In short, it was a pub with a reputation. And very slimy walls.

Ordinary World

I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft