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William Somerset: I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was virtue. David Mills: You're no different. You're no better. William Somerset: I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not. Hell,...

Se7en

Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, o...

Adam Hochschild

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous. 4. But virtue involves overcoming pains and dangers. 5. ...

Life

She could sense it very clearly: for me, no less than for her, the past counted far more than the present, remembering something far more than possessing it. Compared to memory, every possession can only ever seem disappointing, banal, inadequate ......

Love

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.-Tana-page 21-chapter 4

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Colder than Ice

There’s more to honesty than … than an arrangement of words. They say faeries can’t lie, but you lie in your intentions, your attitude, your demeanor —

City of Lost Souls

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

Democracy in America

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

The Death of the Heart

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Discourse on Method

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

The Doctrine of the Mean

Give and Take The Chief takes less than he is given And gives more than he has taken

The Dermis Probe

it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation

Deathless

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

Eat, Pray, Love

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

Emma

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.

The First Part Last

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done than said.

The Hostile Hospital