Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
There's a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has, more or less, with President Trump.
I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp.
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.
I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
The one place where I do think our culture today has to be extremely careful is this whole thing about illegal aliens. Because any time you start defining a significant block of the population as 'others,' or as less than you, you start getting into dangerous waters.
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.
I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.
Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
The answers to all a startup's challenges are out there. By setting up the right mechanisms for gathering feedback, the road to success can be a less bumpy ride.
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.