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If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

I've always relied on producing more material than I need. With each of my published novels I've written around four times the amount of material that's ended up in the book.

I try to give to most legitimate requests, but the amount of my contribution and my personal time varies greatly.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

Beauty is not in outer perfection but rather in the amount of light we allow to shine through the very thing obscuring our souls.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

There is no conceivable amount of money worth telling the world that you were beaten up by Liza Minnelli.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

First, creating moving-image particles using MoCap technology requires a very complex and long production pipeline. Moreover, rendering these particles takes a lengthy amount of time.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

I am really concerned about all of the chemicals. Global warming is another huge one, but the amount of chemicals being used in like laundry detergents and fertilizers is concerning.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.