Largely Quotes
701 quotes by 574 authors
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a…
— E. W. Howe
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I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings...
— Unknown Author
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Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was…
— Unknown Author
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...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and…
— Richard Branson
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Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
— John Fowles
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Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and…
— Christopher Hibbert
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older…
— Caleb Carr
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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to…
— Paddy Ashdown
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It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you…
— Don Williams
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Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the…
— Marion Nestle
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I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to…
— Julian Critchley
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The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
— Paul Fussell
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Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the…
— Michelle Alexander
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Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,…
— Michelle Alexander
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