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“Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.”

People Doe Important Amount Oneself Spending Wellbeing Boost Spending Money

Book:Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Source: Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

“And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.”

Ifs Character Honest Amount Mouths Fairs Criticism Coming Out

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“Warning, I may contain more than a trace amount of nut.”

May Amount Warning Nuts

Author:Stephen Colbert

“There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.”

World Way Evil Amount Horror Ultimate Believer Consistent Loving God True Believer Rationalize Fooling Yourself

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!”

Men States Christian Lord Amount Salvation Enormous Useless Awake Holiness Hebrew Sanctification

Author:J. C. Ryle

“No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.”

Facts Fire Amount Lips

Author:Vance Havner

“Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.”

People Knows Know How Amount Ordinary Determination Extraordinary Quitting Ordinary People Great People

Author:Rick Warren

“Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.”

Amount Thirty Seconds Tolerate

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.”

Political Social Amount Censorship Spit Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Jeff Cooper

“An ecosystem that has the maximum amount of diversity is the richest.”

Amount Diversity Maximum Ecosystems

Author:Robert Greene

“The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.”

Doe Girl Effort Return Amount Achievement Queens Factories Capitalist Providing Silk Stockings

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states will eternally drag the burden of these interest payments. It is obvious that sooner or later all these debts will be liquidated in some way or other, but certainly not by payment of interest and principal according to the terms of the contract.”

Way Believe States Shows Lasts Term Interest Century Amount Increase Financial Obvious Burden Debt Contracts Steady Drag Sooner Or Later Principal Payment Indebtedness

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs.”

“As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. While the deep freeze amounts to little more than irony, Americans should nevertheless take what could well be a last opportunity to reconsider the cliff off which Barack Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the global warming industry want us to jump.”

“An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.”

Possibility Amount Research Climate Cooling

Author:Walter E. Williams

“No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.”

Ifs Knows Class Particular Amount Benefits Meddling

Book:Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

“An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.”

Practice Amount Reflection Performances

Author:Robin Sharma

“Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.”

Men Years Children Country States Hands Government Nations United Millions United States Mankind Amount Taxes Disputes Men Women Residents Rakes Tax System

Author:Robert Higgs

“If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available and thereby makes it possible to embark upon projects which could not be executed before.”

People Ifs Whole Amount Projects Increase Available Income Goods Consumed Surplus

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.”

Mean Enough Guy Poverty Havens Amount Solutions Evidence Spending Theology Shakes More Money Socialist Tire Empirical Evidence

Author:David Limbaugh

“If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of the great god State.”

Ifs Mean States Amount Limits Available Spending Unnecessary Expenditures

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.”

Ifs Might Values Term Pay Amount Flow Investment Dependent Assets Cash Speculation Likelihood Buyers Cash Flow

Author:Seth Klarman

“There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.”

People Knows Needs Certain Roles Amount Easier Empathy Thirds Fourth Sequels

Author:Kim Basinger

“Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.”

People World Feels Amount Pages Compare

Author:Meghan McCain

“I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.”

Trying Clear Amount Drinking Excess Karaoke

Author:Sam Palladio

“People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for that experience. That's why we continue to go to the movies and watch television.”

People Thinking Ends Watches Television Amount Dues Define Success

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“There's a lot of unexpected things. Wonderful things, tough things, but there's always somebody just ready to pitch in. That's probably the heaviest thing, the constant amount of support because it makes you just want to do even better. It makes you want to do stuff for the fans, makes you want to do stuff for the people on the show. I love it.”

People Want Shows Stuff Support Wonderful Fans Ready Amount Tough Constant Unexpected Wonderful Things Tough Things Unexpected Things

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“The amount of preparation I saw from someone like [David] Fincher, and how aware he is of everybody else's job on the set, and how much respect he has for every aspect of the film, and every aspect of the frame - that's the type of actor I am now; it's not the type of actor I was then. But without understanding his process, and then coming to learn it later on, I would never be the actor I am now.”

Jobs Film Actors Process Understanding Saws Type Amount Aspect Preparation

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.”

People Thinking Bigs Night Certain Roles New York Amount Scene Drug Clubs Ecstasy Toilets Taboo

Author:Boy George

“To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?”

Ifs Character Audience Building Amount Spending Scare Adequate Spending Time

Author:Ti West

“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.”

People Feels Two Matter Shows Attention Amount Conversation Empathy Research Phones Two Things Elsewhere Signals Decrease

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.”

Pay Amount Enormous Refugee Turkeys

Author:Martin Schulz

“I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.”

People Thinking Men Mean Sometimes Character Feelings Certain Amount Projects Men And Women Sexism

Author:Matthew Weiner

“I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.”

People Want Children Kids Age Speak Attention Amount Demand Just Being Discomfort

Author:Shannyn Sossamon

“I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.”

Children Kids Amount Conversation My Friends My Children Interrupted

Author:Shannyn Sossamon

“In a typical 401k plan, when you first become eligible you get a big pile of forms and you're told, fill out these forms if you want to join. Tell us how much amount you've saved and how you want to invest the money. In, under automatic enrollment you get that same pile of forms but the top page says, if you don't fill out these forms, we're going to enroll you anyway and we're going to enroll you at this saving rate and in these investments.”

Ifs Want Firsts Bigs Form Plans Amount Pages Investment Rate Saved Saving Typical Enrollment

Author:Richard Thaler

“If rather than setting the minimum balance as the lowest possible amount, so we keep people in debt for as long as possible, we raise the minimum payment and encourage people to pay off their credit cards, we're going to make less money, but we're going to have costumers that are more solvent.”

People Ifs Long Pay Amount Balance Raises Credit Debt Setting Cards Settings Minimum Lowest Payment Credit Card

Author:Richard Thaler

“Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe it to be - as a type - the greatest economic charity of all.”

Believe Facts Seems I Believe Views Support Economic Type Amount Tools Logic Charity Productions Saving Savings Acts Of Charity

Author:F. A. Harper

“However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.”

“Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Bigs Today America Opportunity Security Return Amount Right Now Credit British Significant Online Pounds Bubbles Currency Continuing Unlimited Floats Mortgage Erring

Author:Michael Burry

“Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.”

May Art Reality Order Decision Numbers Amount Aspect Accounts Mere Practicals Literacy Variables Numeracy

Book:Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

Source: Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent

“Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call option. Many fiduciaries placed large amounts of the capital under their stewardship into such options in 2006 and 2007.”

Men Made Amount Paid Disaster Portions Equity Stewardship

Author:Seth Klarman

“There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.”

Past Amount News Bad News

Author:Seth Klarman

“There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.”

Nations Four Talent Amount Scientist Instruments Plus Sheer Inventor Statesmen Franklin Philanthropist

Author:Charlie Munger

“The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic.”

Way Running Lost Advice Amount Equal Paid Investment Zero Republic Peculiar Trading Dividends Shareholders

Author:Charlie Munger

“There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.”

Used Certain Ability Knowing Talent Amount Dissatisfaction Talents And Abilities

Author:Zig Ziglar

“There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.”

Amount Correlation

Author:Kesha

“No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.”

Humans Amount Overcoming Determined Human Will Willfulness

Author:Max Anders

“No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.”

Loss Amount Approval

Author:Max Anders

“Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.”

Stories Certain Pride Amount Regard Impact Headlines Very Positive

Author:Tom Verducci

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