Largely Quotes

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Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a foolâ€™s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market… — Bill Ackman
Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as… — Noam Chomsky
Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. — Susan Maushart
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent… — Glenn Close
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The… — Bede Griffiths
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing… — Earl Blumenauer
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large. — Ted Gup
The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead… — Milton Friedman
History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil.… — Hugh Hammond Bennett
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more… — Broda Otto Barnes
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. — E. W. Howe
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it… — John Dewey
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured… — Joe Paterno
Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late." — Sterling W Sill
Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic… — Jon Stewart
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,… — Martin Amis
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. — Jane Jacobs
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. — Robert W. Floyd

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