Amounts Quotes
402 quotes by 354 authors
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new…
— Hannah Arendt
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
— Edward Abbey
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the…
— Warren Beatty
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I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.
— Sandra Bullock
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
— Albert Camus
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society…
— Albert Camus
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
— Shirley Chisholm
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade…
— Germaine Greer
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Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.
— Ernst Happel
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The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing -…
— Ray Bradbury
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Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle;…
— Austin Phelps
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Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue.…
— Steve Shaw
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and…
— James Ogilvy
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in…
— Alan Watts
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I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire…
— William J. Clinton
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The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
— George Carlin
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the…
— David Hume
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