Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2364 authors
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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors,…
— Akira Mori
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I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it…
— Meher Baba
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The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
— Alexander Hamilton
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If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today,…
— John Dingell
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Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
— Carl Sagan
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of…
— Bruce Alberts
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...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is…
— Joseph Story
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels…
— Arthur Morrison
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Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find…
— Pal Schmitt
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In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and…
— Susan Blackmore
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and…
— Nicolas Steno
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with…
— Kuki Gallmann
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The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their…
— Gunther Blumentritt
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which appear flat on…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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