Compounds Quotes

189 quotes by 153 authors

That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form… — Swami Vivekananda
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest… — Paul Lockhart
What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch… — Keith Olbermann
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was… — Calvin Trillin
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett
Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having… — Jeff Cooper
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. — Tom Stoppard
The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound. — Markus Ruhl
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls… — Barbara Kingsolver
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being… — Frank Zappa
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of… — Johannes Stark
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. — Ambrose Bierce
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so… — Aldo Leopold
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit… — Michael Pollan
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with… — Edmund Burke
The most powerful force in the world is compound interest. — Albert Einstein
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of… — Terry Pratchett
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance. — C.S. Lewis

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