#lesser

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#faculty #few #great #great deal #great minds

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils. ↗

— McGeorge Bundy

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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things. ↗

— Billy Joel

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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ↗

— Erica Jong

#battlefield #bedroom #category #class #feeling

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#britain #debris #debts #dollars #extent

I think people of lesser talent will become stars. ↗

— Howard Stern

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Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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