Largely Quotes

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But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. — Alfred North Whitehead
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. — Niklaus Wirth
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as… — George Edward Woodberry
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history… — Bob Woodward
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. — Ron Wyden
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.… — Neil Postman
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through… — Mark Twain
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity… — Joseph Campbell
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much… — Douglas Adams
Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It… — Terry Pratchett
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every… — Jane Austen
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to… — Paulo Coelho
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they… — Jeanette Winterson
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually… — H. L. Mencken
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey

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