Amount Quotes
2570 quotes by 2052 authors
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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
— Edward Thorndike
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Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of…
— Andrew Gould
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One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon…
— Paul Levinson
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The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory…
— Stewart Dalzell
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There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
— Francis Lawrence
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a…
— Ascanio Sobrero
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply…
— William C. Menninger
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
— Winston Churchill
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
— William James
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No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.
— Sheri L. Dew
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving…
— Harold Rosenberg
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is…
— David Berg
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Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying…
— Jack Kornfield
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Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
— Carly Simon
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Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their…
— Rumi
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Whatever influence you have, it's only for a small amount of time. When Sir Frank (Packer) sold the Daily and Sunday Telegraph to Rupert Murdoch…
— Ita Buttrose
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