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Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.

I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

If you’re unhappy at the amount of sexual opportunity in your life, don’t blame the women. Instead, make sure they have equal access to power, wealth, and status. Then watch what happens.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.