Bill Gates

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

American Businessman

Ulysses S. Grant

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

American President

Henry David Thoreau

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

American Author

Patti Smith

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

American Musician

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

American Writer

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Indian Leader

Josh Billings

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

American Comedian

William James

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

American Philosopher

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Cher

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

Use 'any' when offering or requesting something where the exact number isn't important.

Offers and Requests

'Any' suggests you don't expect a lot of what you're asking about.

Expectation of Few

Use 'any' for general questions, where the answer can be 'none' or 'some'.

General Inquiries

In negatives, 'any' implies zero quantity of something.

Negative Statements

Sometimes 'any' and 'some' can swap places without changing the meaning much.

Interchangeability

As an adverb, 'any' can stress the lack of change or difference in a situation.

Degree of Difference

'Any' can intensify a negative statement or feeling.

Negative Enhancer

'Any' as a pronoun emphasizes that all in a group are included in the potential.

Universal Possibility

Use 'any' to include every option or possibility without discrimination.

Inclusivity

Pronoun 'any' refers to an unspecified person in general terms.

General Reference

'Any' in negative questions can suggest the speaker expects the answer to be 'no'.

Negative Questions

Shows a desperate or last attempt to find or inquire about something.

Desperate Search

Sometimes 'any' adds emphasis when comparing situations or actions.

Intensifying Comparison

'Any' emphasizes the limit to which something can be improved or altered.

Limit of Improvement

 where the guests expect free dessert. What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager

The Infinite Hotel...

 anyone crossing must either hold the lantern or stay right next to it, and any of you can safely wait in the dark on either side of the gorge. Most importantly, everyone must be safely across before the zombies arrive. Otherwise, the first zombie could step on the bridge while people are still on it.

Can you solve the bridge...

 At the very least, you'd think they'd be revealing their presence, deliberately or otherwise, through electromagnetic signals of one kind or another. And yet we see no convincing evidence of any of it. Why? Well, there are numerous possible answers, some of them quite dark.

Questions No One Knows...

 I believe fundamentally, as many speakers have said during the past few days, that we make very poor use of our talents. Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

Bring on the learning...

 so thank you very much so if any of you have a health issue that you need to deal with or a life change you need to deal with i urge you to imagine your healthy future self and start living that life now break your journey down into little battles

The psychological weight...

 The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source.

Why don't perpetual...

 along with any unfertilized eggs, sick, dying, or dead embryos. That protective process is known as menstruation, leading to the period. This biological trait, bizarre as it may be,

Why do women have...

 Reunited. Three out of five chicks have made it. Without such a dramatic start in life, it's unlikely any of them would have even got this far.

Any

Offers and Requests

Expectation of Few

General Inquiries

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