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• What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Sundance Interview: Nathan Fillion on Waitress and Firefly!". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. January 30, 2007.

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• There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.

  Tony Dungy

  School, Two, Doubt

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Citizens, Sacred

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• I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

  Ringo Starr

  Writing, Years, Would Be

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• A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Use, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.102

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• I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Sides, Four, Letters

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• China's productive system draws upon the other East Asian countries to a great extent. The volume of trade is much larger than the net amount being exported from China. China needs substantial reserves to finance all that.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Asian, East

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

  William Jones

  Book, Important, May

  William Jones (1821). “Letters: Chronologically Arranged from Lord Teignmouth's Collection”, p.170

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• The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...

  James C. Scott

  Dream, People, Giving

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.

  Neal Stephenson

  Writing, Roots, Feet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dark, Paid

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

  Felipe Esparza

  Thinking, Watches, Neighbor

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• The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Literature, May

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• At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

  Tim Gunn

  Clothes, Cost, Bigs

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• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Past, Thinking

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

  Tony Hayward

  Ocean, Oil, Water

  "BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill". Interview with Tim Webb, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.

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• A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. When I read an indifferent book, it seems the best thing I can do, but the inspiring volume hardly leaves me leisure to finish its latter pages. It is slipping out of my fingers while I read. It creates no atmosphere in which it may be perused, but one in which its teachings may be practiced. It confers on me such wealth that I lay it down with regret. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Regret, Book, Teaching

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• The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

  Benjamin Graham

  Desire, Three, Credit

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part III, Chapter XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit Control, p. 154, 1937.

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• Just in time for the renewal of the war debate in Congress, the University of Chicago Press has released The U.S. Army / Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. . . . It's a nifty volume, not only because it gives you a sense of what our most highly regarded military theorists are thinking but because sometimes what they're thinking is the last thing you'd expect. Especially interesting is a section called 'Paradoxes of Counterinsurgency Operations,' which tells us: 'Sometimes doing nothing is the best reaction' and 'Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.'

  David L. Ulin

  Military, War, Marine

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• Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Memories, Preparation, Library

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• My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

  Coco Chanel

  Reason, Dense, Diamond

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• Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

  Jodi Picoult

  Glasses, Normal, Cracks

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• Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Important, Disguise, Extremes

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• Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Lying, Book, Details

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• Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Hands, Weight

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