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“I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.”

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Author:Randy Newman

“One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.”

People Different Film Actors Add Details Different Things Different Place Bonus Film Actors

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.”

Men Problem Mathematics Add Errors Equations Only Time

Author:RZA

“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Littles Enough Whole Moments Government Today Nations Millions Greater Progress Citizens Standards Tests Thirds Add Ill Population Reform Abundance Denied Lowest

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.”

Growth Add Cancer Productivity Fats Volume Improving Diminish

Author:Peter Drucker

“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

“Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.”

Form Evil Worry Disease Originals Add Complaints

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.”

Should Philosophy Care Born Mankind Talent Increase Add Misery Philosopher Possessed Economist

Book:Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

Source: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world

“Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.”

Thinking Literature Painting Add Thoughtful Portraits Eloquence

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!”

Hard Work Harder Add Extras Workout Brighter Work Harder My Smile

Author:Summer Sanders

“A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.”

Ifs Way Color Benefits Green Add Variety Meals Vegetables Plates Colorful Protein Nutrients Carbohydrates

Author:Summer Sanders

“Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.”

Giving Motivational Remember Values Memories Wealth Money Rich Special Fine Add Fortune Lifetime Saving Lasting Quarters Candy Something Special Thrift Frugal

Author:Jim Rohn

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

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Author:Walter Pater

“To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.”

Work Wonder Thirds Add Fourth Bricks

Author:Philip Larkin

“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.”

“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .”

Thinking Moments Facts Emotion Spring Bases Add Musical Patterns Composer Listeners Incapable Anticipate

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.”

People Ifs Sometimes Values Drama Offers Deserve Raises Add Divorce Bars Deserving People In Your Life Raising The Bar Deserve Better

Author:Bindu

“Real numbers are good if you add the word 'random'.”

Ifs Real Science Numbers Mathematics Add

Author:Peter Sarnak

“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”

Science Three Involved Mathematics Add Lawyer Application Probability Coins Patents Algorithms

Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes

“I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.”

Shows Christian Law Nations Christ Religious Moral Teaching Authority Mass Add Guides Customs Volume Declaration Moses Utterance Christian Nation

Author:David Josiah Brewer

“I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable in many (not all!) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu, or Jewish contexts.”

People Believe May Helping Christian Jesus Circumstances Equal Add Don't Believe Buddhist Followers Disciple Advisable

Book:A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian

Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian

“Shaunti wields the researcher's clipboard, the analyst's data, and the counselor's insight to bring the excellent newsflash that great marriages are the culmination of definable, repetitive micromovements that add up to deep relationship satisfaction.”

Add Satisfaction Insight Data Excellent Researchers Analysts Counselor Repetitive Culmination Great Marriage Clipboards Deep Relationship

Author:Anita Renfroe

“There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or there might have been none at all. They would probably add, that, as life and man have been produced, that shows that their production was possible; and therefore, if not now then at some other time, if not here then in some other planet of some other sun, we should be sure to have come into existence; or if not precisely the same as we are, then something a little better or a little worse.”

“The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.”

Thousand Ten Cameras Dollars Add Pounds

Author:Rainn Wilson

“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”

Men World Ideas Hands Able Form Science Lying Given Steps Knowledge Shapes Spring Add Strikes Stores Bread Interpretation Predecessors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”

“3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.”

Kind Littles Hard Actors Acting Add Complicated More Time Crew Frustrating Tedious Time Away

Author:Stanley Tucci

“Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.”

Thinking Home Turns Break Team Add Critical Spending Command Supposed To Be Infrastructure Representing Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.”

People Ifs Bigs Risk Add Careful Connected Enormous Delicate Iconic Iconography

Author:Hugh Dancy

“I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.”

Ideas Fall Games Responsibility Add Managers

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.”

Ifs Littles Doe Winning Bits Effort Team Little Bit Add I've Learned Always Believe Team Effort

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.”

Stills Life Is Language Differences Our Lives Planets Add Meetings Confusion Barriers Clash Visiting Cultural Differences American Family Mayhem Miscommunication Language Barriers

Author:Julie Delpy

“...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).”

Knows World Believe Made Ends Stars Water Sky Land Add Expanse

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.”

Jesus Add Scratches Picky

Author:Bob Goff

“They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin.”

Found Add Twins Caves Bin Laden Boxers Osama Bin Laden Playboy Macaroni

Author:David Letterman

“(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ' and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.”

Long Important Reason America Stupid Theory Communication Add Proof France Etc Racist Bad Things Professors Elites Intellectualism Leftists Toothbrushes

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.”

World Numbers Quality Students Add University Access Around The World Harvard Large Numbers High Quality Launching Quality Education Berkeley Mit

Author:Anant Agarwal

“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?”

Ifs Years States Realizing Results Numbers Millions Economy College Degrees Percent Adults Increase Add Billions Income Arkansas College Degree

Author:Mike Huckabee

“You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.”

Knows Stills Might Past Song Bits One Day Add

Author:Kylie Minogue

“The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.”

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Author:Lewis Schiff

“I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.”

Happens Numbers Add Physics Great Things

Author:Randall Munroe

“The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.”

Humans Doe Keys Add Disappointment Temporary Belittle

Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.”

Giving Should Looks Littles Made Matter Play Shows Action Fans Add Routine Bounce Monotonous Youngsters Zips

Author:Al Lopez

“And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.”

Men Giving Real Humanity Common Ignorance Offers Speech Add Explanation Multitudes Personal Experiences Huxley

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.”

“I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.”

Ifs Men Two Father Opportunity Hours Son Months Amount Down And Add Busy Two Months Father And Son Busy Man

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.”

Ifs Mind Littles Has Beens Generations Add Seeds Little Things Disposition Doubted

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”

World May Shows Feelings Form Belief Lines Animal Expression Succeed Highest Draws Absolutes Add Intellect Scales Distinction Faculty Animal World

Author:Thomas Huxley