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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. ↗

— George Eliot

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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

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I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose. ↗

— Roy Wood

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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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