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For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than… — Tom Robbins
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company. — Jeff Bezos
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope… — C. D. Darlington
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. — Publilius Syrus
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain. — Pierre de Fermat
Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware… — Erich Fromm
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the… — Mati Unt
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — Unknown Author
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with… — Fulton J. Sheen
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large… — John Mason Brown
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as… — Richard Lewontin
What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals… — John O'Donohue
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order… — Daniel Dennett
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times. — Richard Ramirez
A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part,… — Unknown Author
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. — Bill Gates
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new,… — Paul Halmos
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking

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