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• It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Oatmeal, People, Giving

  Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

  Emily Oster

  Planes, Fairs

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.

  Courtney Love

  Cat, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Drunk, Leader

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Benny Lévy (2007). “Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews”, p.129, University of Chicago Press

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• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Creative, Different, Cinema

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Ocean, Years, Lasts

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• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Issues, Emergencies

  "The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1983.

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• I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

  Puggy Pearson

  Men, Land, Games

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Death, Heaven, Limits

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• Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Clever, Research, Disease

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.

  Deborah Feldman

  Dream, Mind, Guarantees

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Killers, Martian Chronicles

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a lot of things that you can like at a distance without spending a huge amount of time pondering. It's not so complicated.

  Elvis Costello

  Distance, Complicated, Spending

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.

  Matt Skiba

  Crazy, Kids, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts of affection. He respected the women who were close to him, but never once fell in love.

  Giovanna Cau

  Men, Affection, He Man

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Years, Six Months, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Crafts, Succeed

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

  Walter Willett

  Heart, Years, Disease

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

  M. King Hubbert

  Two, Growth, Culture

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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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