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• My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called Song-do. There were 180 babies in there, and they were GI babies. The U.S. government would not acknowledge this, and the Korean government had nothing to do with them. They were living on a 100-pound bag of rice a month. Some of those kids, when they were old enough, would go out and shine shoes. They would show up at the gate of our compound to shine shoes, and you'd swear they were looking for their fathers.

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Baby, Father

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• If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

  Arthur B. Robinson

  Ocean, Water, Risk

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• Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

  Albert Einstein

  Money, Investing, World

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• Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Eye, Logical, Preference

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• The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Car

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

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• I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, People, Levels

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Essence, Drug

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Punishment, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

  James Altucher

  Gratitude, Creativity, People

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• We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.

  Cyril Ponnamperuma

  Life, Thinking, Energy

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• Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Errors, Models

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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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• This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do larger movies or get jobs so they can familiarize themselves with a studio head and get the opportunity to deliver and impress - or maybe direct a smaller movie. It will take a considerable amount of time to rectify. It's very difficult because it starts at the top.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.840

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• When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Effort, Way

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• Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

  Gail Carriger

  Meaningful, Ivy, Profound

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• Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.

  Chris Kilham

  Coffee, Class, World

  "Coffee: An effective weight loss tool" by Chris Kilham, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Disney Resort and World and Compound, a place where your dreams really do come true, if you dream about having people wearing enormous cartoon-animal heads come around to your restaurant table and act whimsical and refuse to go away until you laugh with delight.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.68, Crown Archetype

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• It seems amazing that the Navy SEALs managed to get inside the compound and shoot Osama so efficiently. I can only imagine they were told that the mission was to rescue a bearded British hostage and he must be brought out alive.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Navy

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Evil, Increase, Interest

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Simple, Differences, Chemistry

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• The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

  John Updike

  Erotic, World, Pillars

  1989 Self-Consciousness, III.'Getting The Words Out'

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• Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.

  Lord Kelvin

  Philosophy, Mean, Law

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• Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

  George Henry Borrow

  Silly, Race, Use

  "Wild Wales". Book by George Henry Borrow, ch. 38, 1862.

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