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«When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.»
«The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...»
«Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.»
«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
«Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.»
«The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: favor, traits
«The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.»

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