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Compound Quotes

True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery Picture Quote #1

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy Picture Quote #1

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure Picture Quote #1

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool Picture Quote #1

We’ve found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there’s a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there’s even more of a delay. No single compound will do this Picture Quote #1

I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It’s good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn’t do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you’re out of sand, then you must burn up Picture Quote #1

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If your washing machine stops working and you’re addicted to appliances that work, you’ll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won’t compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation Picture Quote #1

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers Picture Quote #1

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body Picture Quote #1

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors Picture Quote #1

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him Picture Quote #1

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language Picture Quote #1

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Heaven's face does glow, and this solidarity and compound mass, with heated visage, as against the doom, is thought - sick at the act Picture Quote #1

A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self sacrifice that I am acquainted with Picture Quote #1

For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the worst we wicked ones may expect is a chemical reaction Picture Quote #1

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded Picture Quote #1

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole Picture Quote #1

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery Picture Quote #1

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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time Picture Quote #1

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest Picture Quote #1

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say Picture Quote #1

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn’t... pays it Picture Quote #1

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share Picture Quote #1

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment Picture Quote #1

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The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love Picture Quote #1

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end Picture Quote #1

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world Picture Quote #1

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live Picture Quote #1

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders Picture Quote #1

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality Picture Quote #1

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True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery (Compound Quotes) Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy (Compound Quotes) You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure (Compound Quotes) If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool (Compound Quotes) We’ve found that frogs are counting the number of chemicals in the water. If you expose them to two chemicals, there’s a slight delay in metamorphosis; if you expose them to ten, there’s even more of a delay. No single compound will do this (Compound Quotes) I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It’s good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn’t do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you’re out of sand, then you must burn up (Compound Quotes) If your washing machine stops working and you’re addicted to appliances that work, you’ll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won’t compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation (Compound Quotes) When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers (Compound Quotes) The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body (Compound Quotes) By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors (Compound Quotes) To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him (Compound Quotes) Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language (Compound Quotes) Heaven's face does glow, and this solidarity and compound mass, with heated visage, as against the doom, is thought - sick at the act (Compound Quotes) A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self sacrifice that I am acquainted with (Compound Quotes) For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that God is radium, or ether or some scientific compound, and that the worst we wicked ones may expect is a chemical reaction (Compound Quotes) There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded (Compound Quotes) A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole (Compound Quotes) The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery (Compound Quotes) An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time (Compound Quotes) Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest (Compound Quotes) The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say (Compound Quotes) Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn’t... pays it (Compound Quotes) Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share (Compound Quotes) Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment (Compound Quotes) The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love (Compound Quotes) The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end (Compound Quotes) The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world (Compound Quotes) It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live (Compound Quotes) Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders (Compound Quotes) There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality (Compound Quotes)

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