#volumes

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ↗

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

#like #two #volumes

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. ↗

— Mos Def

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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me. ↗

— Hans Frank

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I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#behave #got #guy #how #i

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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