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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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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.
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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.


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


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It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.


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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.


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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.


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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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