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• The amount of hot girls who come to signings is incredible!

  Zayn Malik

  Girl, Hot, Incredibles

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• I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

  Jennifer Harrison

  Harsh, Hostile

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• No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

  Sidney Mohede

  Attitude, Integrity, Character

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• Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Clothes, Pay

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• Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

  William C. Bryant

  Pride, Honor, Quality

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• Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Class, Middle, Unlimited

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• Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail. I think the amounts they tell you to send are actually just suggested minimum donations - if you get my drift.

  Dave Barry

  Education, Thinking, Mail

  Dave Barry (1986). “Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week”, p.11, Rodale

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• I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, Blood, Racism

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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• Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

  Katherine Paterson

  Crazy, People, Ordinary

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Evil, Individual

  Washington Irving (1859). “The works of Washington Irving”, p.402

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• To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.116

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• I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Intelligent, Thinking

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• A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Revision, Too Much, Planning

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”

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• I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Grace, Delight

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion.

  Sara Coleridge

  Children, Mean, Parent

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.70

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• A human being can stand any amount of pain.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Humans, Human Beings

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• But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Intellectual, Religion

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• Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

  Irena Chalmers

  Food, Boys, Eggs

  FaceBook post by Irena Chalmers from Mar 28, 2013

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• I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

  Ali Liebegott

  Jobs, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.

  Charlie Huston

  Humility, Self, Choices

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• I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Thinking, Careers

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• People at my level [Unilever CEO] shouldn't be motivated by salary. If you paid me double, I'm not going to work twice as much, because I'm already probably maximizing my time available. And would it change the way I do things? Not really. So, yes, I am fortunate, and I am ashamed about the amount of money I earn.

  Paul Polman

  People, Salary, Levels

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

  David Lynch

  Enlightenment, Needs, Each Day

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

  George Clooney

  Country, Ego, Able

  "The Ides of March - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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