When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can…

The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity…

— Richard Doll

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you…

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

— Patricia Cornwell

Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who…

— Jonathan Ive

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They…

— Amitabh Bachchan

The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we…

— Lewis Thomas

When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every…

— Aristotle

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich…

— Harold Laski

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.

— Willis Lamb

A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies…

— John Taylor Gatto

I'm often surprised by classical music and musicians. I've met a large number of them because my wife works for the Boston Symphony, and…

— James Taylor

The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large numbers, it…

— Michelle Alexander