"Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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• By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan
• We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. — Athol Fugard
• Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer.… — Ken Keyes Jr.
• Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children,… — Charles Dickens
• One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full… — Freeman Dyson
• When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound… — Fritjof Capra
• "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied… — Frank P. Ramsey
• Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in… — Charles Babbage
• An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most… — Ambrose Bierce

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