Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2305 authors
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We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part,…
— Dan Millman
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For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish,…
— Dan Barber
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Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt…
— Stewart Brand
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When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you…
— Dan Pallotta
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Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny,…
— Ellen Gustafson
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think…
— Albert Einstein
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We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook
— Traci Bingham
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
— Douglas Hurd
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The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
— Knute Nelson
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
— Everett Ruess
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However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe,…
— Jacques Lecoq
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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
— Ben Nicholson
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In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to…
— Thomas Boston
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We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim…
— Bethany Hamilton
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In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold…
— Daniel Suarez
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The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice…
— Michelle Alexander
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