#exceed

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Learning is its own exceeding great reward. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#great #great reward #learning #own #reward

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#amount #exceed #grieving #him #man

I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations. ↗

— Nate Ruess

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. ↗

— Amartya Sen

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The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#availability #collective #essential #exceeded #expectations

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though! ↗

— Roberta Williams

#even #exceed #hard #hard work #lot

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#gone #i #international #into #lib

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#forfeiture #game #limit #penalty #time