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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring… — Plato
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that… — Victoria Moran
The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and… — Ferdinand Foch
The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me. — Nevil Shute
Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of… — Michael Milken
In the large buy out space, which is where we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts, there are relatively few firms with the capital, experience,… — Henry Kravis
We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the second highest corporate… — Meg Whitman
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual. — Frank Knight
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual… — Oliver Goldsmith
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human… — Walt Whitman
To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need… — Donna Tartt
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people… — Amos Tversky
In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporationâ€™s funeral at our expense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one… — Stevie Smith
I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings,… — Glenn Miller
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'â€ — Adrienne Rich
In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and… — James E. Faust
For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing… — Ezra Taft Benson

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