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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… — Robertson Davies
- The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of… — Michael Polanyi
- Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. — Roger McDonald
- Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
- This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. — Patrick Geddes
- To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly… — Aldous Huxley
- To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively… — Pope Leo XIII
- At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some… — Ray Stannard Baker
- Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there. — Gedde Watanabe
- I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty… — Henry Ford
- To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. — Henry Ford
- Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.… — John Wesley Powell