#amount

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#before #change #dire #economy #far

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. ↗

— Dean Smith

#basketball #five #game #mean #players

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#better #better off #judging #least #off

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#about #amount #likelihood #past #performance

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#amount #break #competition #deep #enforcement

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#adult life #advocate #amount #answers #anything

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#before #i #leaves #make #out

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to. ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#date #even #getting #good #guys