#more or less

History is more or less bunk. ↗

— Henry Ford

#bunk #less #more #more or less

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american culture #black #common #culture #dna

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#first #fool #got #guitar #i

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#less #more #more or less #pain #purchased

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #before #character #comprehend #creation

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#church #congregation #earlier #employ #gifts

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#apparent #been #complete #completely #disturbance

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#less #mad #more #more or less #point