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«Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.»
«My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said 'Just wait.'»
Author: Judy Tenuta
| Keywords:
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«No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
ability, amount, amounted, amounting, avail, avails, honor, honoring, slightest
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.»
Author: George Washington Carver
(Chemist, Educator, horticulturist)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
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«Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
amount, commonest, endured, livelihood, marriage, mode, probably, prostitution, total, undesired
«No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Suffering
| Keywords:
amount, explanation, extraordinary, possible worlds
«MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Gifts,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amount, compress, compressed, compressing, largest, Macdonald, smallest, The Gift, the smallest