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226 Gigantic quotes by 191 unique authors
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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom…
— Arthur Koestler
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like…
— Elizabeth George Speare
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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
— H. L. Mencken
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect…
— William Jennings Bryan
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You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that…
— Eugene Jarecki
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
— Gary Wolf
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When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive…
— Brian Krause
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I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have…
— Ali MacGraw
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I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
— Jeff Perry
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I prefer to have one gigantic laugh preceded by several smaller laughs rather than a bunch of medium laughs all along.
— Ron Shock
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing…
— J. Anthony Lukas
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I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the…
— Peter Higgs
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I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience…
— Lauren Miller
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic…
— Maeve Binchy
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Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing…
— James Gleick
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There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged…
— Siri Hustvedt
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My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted…
— Siri Hustvedt
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst…
— Arthur Henderson
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Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
— Georg Henrik von Wright
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
— John Lothrop Motley
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