Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Rapper, songwriter
"To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing."
T. E. Lawrence
Writer, Archaeologist, Military Officer
"Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us."
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"In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger."
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"A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing."
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"7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love."
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"There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred."
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"We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision."
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"When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all."
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"The amount of money one needs is terrifying."
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"It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot."
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"Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount."
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"The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor."
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"You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount."
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"I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh."
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"The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us."
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"He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
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"Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount."
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"There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us."
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"Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning."
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"Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives."
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"The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it."
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"Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning."
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