"Vanity is a motive of immense potency." — Bertrand Russell

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• The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we… — Saul Bellow
• The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of… — Steve Buyer
• Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
• Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of… — Nick Cave
• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and… — Kofi Annan
• I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a… — Bernard Moitessier
• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this… — Lewis H. Lapham
• The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages… — Peter Kropotkin
• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be… — Joseph de Maistre
• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
• This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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