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• I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Character, Mean

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• Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

  Naomi Campbell

  Children, Effort, Care

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• For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

  Max von Laue

  Long, Wavelength, Uncertain

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• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Opportunity, Rude, Motive

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Wise, Perfect

  Leonhard Euler, C. Truesdell (1980). “The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI”, p.200, Springer Science & Business Media

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• God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

  Jerry Falwell

  Family Love, Support, Example

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• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Jobs, Zero, Reality

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• We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.

  James L. Barksdale

  Strong, People, Groups

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• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  Barney Frank

  Healthy, Efficiency, Produce

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• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Employment

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Population, Optimum

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Government, Fuel Economy, Way

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. "You looove me," he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, "You love me this much.

  James Patterson

  Feet, Arms, Maximum Ride

  "Maximum Ride Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

  Tupac Shakur

  Jail Time, Half, Months

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

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• He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

  James Patterson

  Relationship, Dog, Flower

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• I offered to pee on him, but they said no

  James Patterson

  Maximum Ride, Said, They Said

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• You stand out like a fart in a church.

  James Patterson

  Church, Maximum Ride, Fart

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• I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

  James Patterson

  Maximum Ride, Wells, Distress

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

  James Patterson

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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• Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

  James Patterson

  Fashion, Mean, Play

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• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

  James Patterson

  Running, Country, School

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• I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Rivers, Effort

  "Maximum Ride: Angel". Book by James Patterson, March 3, 2011.

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• I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

  John Grisham

  People, Locks, Favors

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Writing

  More Tramps Abroad ch. 23, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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