#lesser

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

— Billy Joel

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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

#directed #greater #lesser #more #often

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#extent #father #i #lesser #lesser extent

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#age #beings #continue #day #human

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. ↗

— H. Allen Smith

#differs #his #human #human animal #lesser

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. ↗

— Howard Dean

#deeply #disappointed #evils #i #just

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years. ↗

— Donald Judd

#does #effect #fifteen #i #intensity

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge