#amount

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

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You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. ↗

— Prince Andrew

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There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation. ↗

— Rob Woodall

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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

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You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

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It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point. ↗

— Sean Booth

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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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