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In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? — William Allingham
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it… — Simon Bolivar
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no depression… — Herbert Hoover
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or… — George Steiner
Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's one I own… — David Gelernter
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left… — Roseanne Barr
Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to… — Ron Fournier
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a… — Sigmund Freud
If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be… — Al Franken
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a… — Benjamin Franklin
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. — David Friedman
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to… — Thomas Friedman
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our… — Jerry Garcia
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken. — Ina Garten
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the… — Bill Gates
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going… — J. Paul Getty
Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is… — Carlos Ghosn
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street… — William Gibson
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos. — Evelyn Glennie
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of… — Seth Godin
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued… — Oliver Goldsmith
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… — Jane Goodall

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