In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physicalchemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.
So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)
Chance favors only those who court her.
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.
Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks. ' They always do.