#mount

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#aside #certain #charity #every #like

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#barren #desert #each #few #few men

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time. ↗

— Katie Couric

#certain #dignity #everything #good #good manners

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#decency #even #exhausting #maintain #more

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#extreme #individualism #jefferson #mind #tantamount

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#additional #already #everest #evidence #foot

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#certain #experience #external #having #internal

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#amount #any #basic #except #experience

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#amount #cared #fair #got #hanging