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29 quotes by 29 authors

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it… — Ulysses S. Grant
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever… — Adela Rogers St. Johns
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the… — Charlie Chaplin
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the… — Richard Dawkins
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing… — Emma Curtis Hopkins
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge… — David Eugene Smith
My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur — Wayne Huizenga
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to… — Sebastian Horsley
When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot… — Cynthia Lennon
None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of… — Chalmers Johnson
...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were… — Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to… — Mortimer Zuckerman
There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans'… — Eric Alterman
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make… — Peter York
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic… — Susan Sontag
Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he… — D. H. Lawrence
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal… — Kim Harrison
So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing:… — Justin Cronin
To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She… — Meg Wolitzer

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