“ Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”
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“ He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
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“ Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and… you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. ”
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