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1 " In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness. "
― P.G. Wodehouse
2 " One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency. "
― Christopher Hitchens
3 " When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. "
― , Aimer Le Jeune: L'Experience Monastique
4 " It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction. "
― David Amerland , The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.
5 " I've learned the maximum from my failures. "
6 " The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it. "
― Margery Allingham , Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery, #3)
7 " You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. "
― Ronald Reagan
8 " Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us. "
― Henry Miller
9 " Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential. "
― Anastasiya Kotelnikova
10 " A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. "
11 " The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. "
12 " This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. "
13 " Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. "
