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«No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.»
«The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work»
«One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.»
Author: Franklin Thomas
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Keywords:
amount,
complex,
descendant,
descendants,
gender,
genders,
Human eye,
identities,
incredible,
paid,
shape,
skin,
The Descendants,
unique
«The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing»
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert
(
Economist,
Minister)
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About:
Taxation
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Keywords:
amount,
Art of,
feathers,
goose,
goosed,
hissed,
hisses,
hissing,
largest,
obtain,
plucking,
plucks,
smallest,
taxation,
the art,
the smallest
«Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.»
«No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
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About:
Memory,
Time
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Keywords:
amount,
couch,
Couched,
couches,
couching,
erase,
fur,
furred,
masking,
remove,
tape,
tapes,
taping,
totally
«Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.»
«The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
amount,
cost,
exchanged,
immediately,
in the long run,
long run,
required,
The Long,
The Long Run
«The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(
Actor,
Comic)
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Keywords:
amount,
colonial,
Into the Woods,
judged,
nation,
needs,
return,
Return to,
split,
splits,
splitting,
split up,
The Nation,
way of life,
wife,
wood
«Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.»