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Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times;… — Thomas de Quincey
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work… — Marshall McLuhan
Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit… — Ralph Marston
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an… — Adrienne Rich
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. — Henry A. Kissinger
It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly. — Rosalind Russell
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than… — Peter Matthiessen
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. — Thomas Sowell
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay. — Barack Obama
Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes. — Alec Baldwin
If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous… — Jim Rogers
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards,… — Philip Johnson
As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have. — Andy Goldsworthy
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds… — Jeffrey Kluger
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole… — Joshua Lederberg
The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis… — Joseph Rotblat
Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind. — Connie Stevens
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,. — Anne McLellan
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base. — Charlie Cook
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive… — Richard Wiseman
Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world… — Arthur J. Deikman
One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any… — John Muir

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