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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. — Eliot Porter
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be… — Norman Cousins
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists — Mikhail Botvinnik
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. — Maxine Hong Kingston
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. — Irwin Shaw
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your… — Ansel Adams
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H. A. L. Fisher
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial… — John W. Gardner
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death… — Greg Zoeller
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. — Sam Smith
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described… — Matthew Rabin
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale… — Ilya Prigogine
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And… — Kim Stanley Robinson
There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world.… — David Rockefeller
In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds… — Paul Krugman

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