#affords

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I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).


Don Cheadle


#amount #because #favorite #film #i

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.


William Whipple


#affords #certainly #good #grazing #preferable

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.


Samuel Richardson


#anything #considerable #deceased #dies #first

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.


Samuel Johnson


#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.


Samuel Johnson


#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.


John Sterling


#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.


Todd Akin


#any #attempt #civil #civil government #family

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.


Kate Millett


#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.


Northrop Frye


#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!


James Payn


#before #bill #britain #cases #educational