Amount Quotes - Page 25

• Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

  Warren Buffett

  Loss, Trying, Gains

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• People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

  Justin Rosenstein

  People, Tools, Inbox

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• I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

  JWoww

  Cheese, Junk, Pizza

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• No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.

  Robert E. Murray

  Kings, Neglect, Activity

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• The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

  Richard Attias

  Loss, Growth, Poor

  "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• ..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

  Randy Alcorn

  Ideas, May, Want

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.296, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Hate, Airports, Minutes

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• There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Comedy, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Heart, Trying

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• The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Squares, Water, Pounds

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• Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Fall, Home

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• I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

  Theodore Stevens

  Friday, Morning, Technology

  "Your Own Personal Internet", www.wired.com. June 30, 2006.

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• And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mother, Animal, Data

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• Now, Bella suspected by this time that Mr. Rokesmith admired her. Whether the knowledge (for it was rather that than suspicion) caused her to incline to him a little more, or a little less, than she had done at first; whether it rendered her eager to find out more about him, because she sought to establish reason for her distrust, or because she sought to free him from it; was as yet dark to her own heart. But at most times he occupied a great amount of her attention.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.71

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• Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”

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• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

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• The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

  Rick Bayan

  People, World, Liability

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• The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

  Alex Steffen

  People, Energy, Use

  "SXSW Eco: Sustainability And The Carbon Zero City, By The Numbers" by Lynne Peeples, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Fun, Hours, Blink

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

  Albert Einstein

  Squares, Light, Average

  "Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

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• By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Exercise, People

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• Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

  Grant Cardone

  Average, Giving, Attention

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Apr 25, 2017

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• Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Numbers, Important

  Patrick Swift (1993). “PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983”

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• While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Summer, Country, Military

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• Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Errors, Race, Atheism

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (2001). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.178, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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