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The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And grow a fair amount of nettles.

You have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect...and so are you!

We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer.

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

Your 'Pringle' contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

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.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

Are you willing to increase the amount of time every day that you feel good inside?

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

There exists for every liquid a temperature at which no amount of pressure is sufficient to retain it in the liquid form.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

At its core, health is simple: eat the right amount for your body, don't ingest chemicals or fake foods, and move more.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.