#more or less

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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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

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. ↗

— Roger Moore

#between #did #different #different parts #different people

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

— Margaret Oliphant

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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

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. ↗

— Bob Riley

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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

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#explicit #i #implicit #less #make

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#accept #death #find #go #i

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

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