Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2379 authors
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All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of…
— William J. Clinton
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I believe the Visa Waiver Program, it essentially is the soft underbelly of the visa system. Now we have 35 countries in it. We have…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces.…
— Edward Kennedy
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house…
— Abraham Cowley
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
— James Garner
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast…
— Frederick Marryat
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You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You…
— Eric Williams
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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and…
— Richard Doll
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To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.
— John Haines
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
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When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation…
— Joel Grey
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The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
— Josh Billings
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We…
— Austin Phelps
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Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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If you have a large bloc of Americans who believe you're trying to keep their ... fellow Hispanics down and deprive them of an opportunity,…
— John McCain
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