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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain;
  enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days.
  And you say you are tired?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Tired, Cities

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

  Rick Rubin

  Information

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• The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself.

  Anita Moorjani

  Kindness, Compassion, Giving

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 07, 2012

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• Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

  Alan Alda

  Encouragement, Awards, Giving

  "2005 Tony Awards Q&A: Alan Alda". Interview with Robert Diamond, www.broadwayworld.com. May 20, 2005.

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• You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

  Alan Moore

  Differences, Empowerment, Principles

  "Discuss: Alan Moore turned down millions to sign off on 'before Watchmen'...is he a hero or a fool" by Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Your Heavenly Father loves you-each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God's love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Love You, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Aug 07, 2015

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• The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  People, Realizing, Bigs

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• [on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

  Allan Dwan

  Cameras, Certain, Improvisation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Effort, Doe

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• It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Nice, People, Challenges

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• There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this–that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do, that you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will abound all the more to the glory of grace. That is a very good test of gospel preaching. If my preaching and presentation of the gospel of salvation does not expose it to that misunderstanding, then it is not the gospel.

  Martyn

  Mean, Men, People

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• No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

  Christine Kane

  Inspiration, Heart, Soul

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• If you want to understand what's happening to the situation in a town in Afghanistan, go down to the market. Is it vibrant? Is it safe? That will tell you an enormous amount about the security situation.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Safe, Want, Towns

  "MI6 and ministers urged to use social networks" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2011.

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• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Thinking, Israel, Numbers

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

  W. C. Fields

  Wife, Needs, Splits

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• Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

  Michael Neill

  Inspiring, Art, Want

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• If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .

  Bodhidharma

  Truth, Break Through, Understanding

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.31, Macmillan

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• What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Creativity, Character, People

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

  Alva Myrdal

  Balance, Has Beens, Written

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• I grew up thinking that because I couldn't read, I was stupid and would never amount to anything. I worked my way through college as a waitress and thought I wasn't capable of doing anything else. My grades in English were horrible, and I barely got through.

  Suze Orman

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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• PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

  Paul Ryan

  Corruption, Pacs, Handle

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• I'm a firm believer that the wild-card teams, because they're grinding it out until the final days, have a tremendous amount of excitement. That excitement carries over into the playoffs and really helps.

  Tim Salmon

  Team, Finals, Cards

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• People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Trust, People, Said

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