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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. — John F. Kennedy
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting… — Thomas Jefferson
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of… — H. L. Mencken
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — Unknown Author
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work.… — Albert Einstein
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles
When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school.… — Susan Sarandon
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. — Lucy Stone
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. .… — Roger Rosenblatt
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. — Barbara Cartland
The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes… — Sigmund Freud
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority… — Paul Washer
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. — Paul Washer
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans,… — Vic Snyder
I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl… — Anton Szandor LaVey
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. — Herbert M. Shelton
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run… — Robert Andrews Millikan
For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something… — Tzvetan Todorov
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the… — Aung San

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