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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.
‐‐ Louis Leakey -
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
‐‐ John McWhorter -
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
‐‐ Chuck Feeney -
Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.
‐‐ Anita Elberse -
Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee -
Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
‐‐ Jim Elliot -
Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.
‐‐ Janet Reno -
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
‐‐ Peter Senge -
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
‐‐ Jacopo Sannazaro -
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz -
Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh -
Most liberals I know were for invading Afghanistan right after 9/11.
‐‐ Michael Moore -
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
‐‐ Joe Biden -
Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
‐‐ John Perry Barlow -
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen -
Most little boys like to dress like their daddies.
‐‐ Marie-Chantal Claire -
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
‐‐ Michael Dirda -
Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.
‐‐ David Talbot -
Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.
‐‐ David Remnick -
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
‐‐ Iain Banks -
Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld -
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
‐‐ Jackson Katz -
Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.
‐‐ Matthew Stewart -
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.
‐‐ Jon Anderson -
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
‐‐ Alvin Toffler -
Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen -
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
‐‐ Anne Lamott -
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
‐‐ Ian Fleming -
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
‐‐ John Fowles -
Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
‐‐ John Cameron -
Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki -
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury -
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
‐‐ Jerry Rubin -
Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.
‐‐ Jennifer Grant -
Most men are fragile.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson -
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
‐‐ Charles Dickens -
Most men are not that evolved.
‐‐ Rosanna Arquette -
Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.
‐‐ Russell Smith -
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
‐‐ Andrew Cohen -
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
‐‐ Diogenes -
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
‐‐ Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.
‐‐ Luke Evans -
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.
‐‐ Corliss Lamont -
Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks -
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes -
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
‐‐ George Savile -
Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll -
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard -
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
‐‐ Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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