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• Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Natural Wonders, World

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• The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

  Solange Knowles

  Dream, Father, Block

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

  Paul Newman

  Loss, Ozone, Years

  "Study: Despite efforts, ozone layer will take long time to heal" by Greg Lefevre, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2000.

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• Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

  Horace Greeley

  Country, Evil, Fearless

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• Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Rivers, Issues

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.315, Library of America

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• My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  America, Lucky, Wealth

  "The Giving Pledge". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2010.

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• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

  Michael Pollan

  Taken, Mean, Simple

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, World, Fallen Angels

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• Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, War, Home

  "Thud!".

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• Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Decisions We Make, Evil, Littles

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• Daren Hardy's The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!

  Stedman Graham

  Book, Leader, Principles

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• If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

  Howard Pyle

  Ideas, Two, Would Be

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• There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Loss, Ungrateful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.21

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• Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!

  Denis Waitley

  Simple, Yield, Common Sense

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• I have to admit that one of the saddest things I see in ministry is a woman who belittles her husband. Even if he has indeed failed in some way, his wife’s disparaging words compound the disaster exponentially. Her cynicism is utterly emasculating, and many times, incredibly subtle. Like a fine, thin blade, it slices deep, penetrating to the very core of his masculine soul.

  Stu Weber

  Husband, Wife, Soul

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• Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer.

  Andrew Weil

  Dark, Giving, Drug

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Expression, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Melting Pot, Precious Metal, Metals

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Littles, Strange

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster ... Engraved by T. Williams”, p.82

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• Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

  Tim Allen

  Numbers, Giving, Sound

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• Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Airports, Government, Cities

  "Computer crime" by Gerald McKnight, (p. 203), 1973.

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• Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

  Benjamin Graham

  Growth, Defeat, Teach

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 103, 1937.

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