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• Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.

  Greil Marcus

  Teacher, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

  Paul Samuelson

  Jobs, Black Youth, Doe

  Paul A. Samuelson, Anthony Scott (1975). “Economics”

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• I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Love Life, Feet

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

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• I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Character, Skills

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Vanity, People, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (1969). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914”

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• You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Giving, Judging

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• Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

  Al Gore

  Wind, Forever, Energy

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

  Novala Takemoto

  Balance, One Day, Doe

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• I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

  Jessie J

  Voice, People, Negative

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

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• If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

  Ray Romano

  Married, Fame, Knows

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• According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

  Steven Pinker

  Gray Matter, Differences, Brain

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.73, Penguin

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• It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Philosophy, Giving, Principles

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On War”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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• The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

  Chris Paul

  Eight, Buttons, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

  Matt Ross

  Sound, Incredibles, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a limitless amount of great music at my disposal and it's very, very pleasurable because when the music goes on the film it's amazing how much it livens up the film and gives it an emotional kick in the pants, sort of.

  Woody Allen

  Emotional, Giving, Goes On

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are de-activated. Perhaps the greater the amount of money to be made, the greater the deactivation of the system that regulates ethical behaviour.

  Semir Zeki

  Strong, Greed, Brain

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• The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

  Naum Gabo

  Order, Evil, Chaos

  Naum Gabo (1957). “Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays”

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• If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Space, Looks, Welcome

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• Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

  Danny Gregory

  Mindfulness, Needs, World

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• The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

  Madison Grant

  Real, Blood, White

  Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Skills, Important

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• Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Assumption

  "The Feynman Lectures on Physics". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1964.

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• There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Certain

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.270, Vintage

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• I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

  Arjun Rampal

  Thought Provoking, Looks, Actors

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• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Buttons, Matter

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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