Quotes with compound

  • Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
  • What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • William Shakespeare The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bill Gross Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • Kahlil Gibran 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.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Haydon We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Lord George Byron What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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