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«I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more»
«In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.»
«One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs»
Author: Robert Firth
| Keywords:
indicate, lacking, programs, roman, Roman Empire, termination, The Fall, zero
«The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.»
Author: William Styron
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
affected, antithesis, close down, depression, drained, evident, murk, paralysis, psychic, psychic energy, responses, sapped, sapping, saps, slowed, The Madness, throttle, throttled, zero
«The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| About:
Funny,
Honesty
| Keywords:
adjust, bathroom, for good measure, From Zero, income, income tax, income taxes, income tax return, scale, tax, tax return, zero, zeros
«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:
amount, another planet, at odds, average, deranged, deranging, divided, divided by, divided up, finite, Finite number, follows, from time to time, From Zero, however, infinite, infinite number, Infinities, infinity, inhabited, inhabits, known, near, number, odds, one of them, our planet, planets, population, populations, products, space, The Planets, the universe, whole number, worlds, zero, zeros
«In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.»
Author: Philip Crosby
| Keywords:
approach, defects, From Zero, item, items, unimportant, zero, zeros
«One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
balanced, option, zero