#amount

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#any #bear #excess #harder #joy

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out. ↗

— Christian Bale

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Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. ↗

— Desmond Morris

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I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents. ↗

— Joe Morton

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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