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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. (Laozi)
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. View quote
Booker T. Washington
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. View quote
W. C. Fields
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. View quote
David Bowie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. View quote
Margaret Mead
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add. View quote
Steven Wright
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. View quote
William Osler
Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become. (Angelina Jolie)
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. View quote
Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. View quote
Karl Marx
I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to. View quote
Maurice Gibb
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. View quote
Cicero
All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Better to add life to your days than days to your life. (Rita Levi-Montalcini)
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. View quote
John Newton