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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes
If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig… — Dan Millman
If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall! — T. Harv Eker
A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance… — Ambrose Bierce
I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I… — Ronald Reagan
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than… — Samuel Johnson
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy. — James C. Collins
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw… — Elbert Hubbard
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it. — George Burns
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times… — Marcel Proust
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;… — Sri Chinmoy
Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. — Randall Terry
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute -… — Rajneesh
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact,… — Sean Stephenson
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have… — Saint John Chrysostom
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him;… — Sun Tzu
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day. — Rudyard Kipling
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result… — Robert E. Ornstein
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting… — Steve Case

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