Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
— Quintilian
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Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of…
— Kent Nerburn
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No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.
— Neil L. Andersen
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If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
— Jeff Bezos
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Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.
— Marya Mannes
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Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt,…
— Noam Chomsky
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By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human…
— Frederick William Robertson
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At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue…
— Ibn Khaldun
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The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and…
— George Orwell
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Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put…
— Elias Zerhouni
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Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to…
— Winston Churchill
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History is still in large measure poetry to me.
— Jacob Burckhardt
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To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and…
— Aristotle
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I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as…
— John Keats
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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
— Mark Twain
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"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large…
— Charles de Lint
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When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay…
— Fred Rogers
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
— Albert Einstein
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A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All…
— Etty Hillesum
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war…
— Jeannette Rankin
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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since…
— Mark Twain
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This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security…
— Jody Williams
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It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
— Thomas Paine
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