Compound Quotes
164 quotes by 138 authors
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I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take…
— Hesham Qandil
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As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled…
— Chely Wright
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue…
— William Morris Hunt
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Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a…
— Jon Ronson
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It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
— Charles Darwin
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In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR,…
— Robert Huber
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The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he…
— Solange Knowles
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Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.
— Charlie Munger
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The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that…
— Jeff Olson
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In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he…
— Peter Bergen
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And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of…
— Peter Bergen
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This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.
— Paul Heyman
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
— Albert Einstein
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Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.
— David Letterman
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Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and…
— Barack Obama
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The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,…
— Nicole Brossard
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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