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• My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mother, Teenager, Loss

  "My Big Feminist Wedding". www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

  Christiana Figueres

  Environmental, Energy, Climate

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• The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth's ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don't think you're going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven't searched very well yet. That's where we are.

  Jill Tarter

  Ocean, Thinking, Years

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• I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

  Julie Klam

  Dog, Mourning, Suffering

  Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin

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• The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

  E. W. Howe

  Gambling, Games

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.

  Roy Blunt

  Challenges, Next, Faces

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Harbors

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

  William Kempe

  Order, People, Collaboration

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• I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

  Emily Oster

  Planes, Fairs

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• You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Healthy, World, Break

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• It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Oatmeal, People, Giving

  Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count…Provided I like it!

  Puggy Pearson

  Men, Land, Games

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Ocean, Years, Lasts

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch.

  Dhani Jones

  Song, Two, People

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• Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

  Criss Jami

  People, Adjectives, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Creative, Different, Cinema

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• Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

  Justin Somper

  Eye, Tears, Whole

  Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Tide of Terror”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

  David Pogue

  Ridiculous, Refining

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• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Issues, Emergencies

  "The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1983.

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• The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pride, Men, Treats

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• The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Government, Way

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Clever, Research, Disease

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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