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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it. ↗

— Will Rogers

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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#best #go #liar #longest #lying

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

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No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked. ↗

— Jan Egeland

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