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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought… — Kwame Nkrumah
Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a yearly increase of food may… — Thomas Malthus
I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in… — Lawrence Taylor
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that… — Edward Weston
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not shoot at all.… — Bill Brandt
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never… — Elliott Erwitt
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours… — Unknown Author
Very few great goals actually go in. — Graham Taylor
So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if… — Tony Kornheiser
I got into a few games after they were hopelessly won or hopelessly lost, you know, when they put the substitutes in, and finally the… — Richard M. Nixon
We're all hoping to drop at least a few seconds in the finals. There's a lot of girls that didn't even swim this morning that… — Brittany MacLean
Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the… — David Hume
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a… — Ben Jonson
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few — Unknown Author
I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier.… — Cristiano Ronaldo
I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow… — Cristiano Ronaldo
People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as… — Peter Singer
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on… — William O. Douglas
To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. — Eero Saarinen
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. — Walter Scott

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