Largely Quotes

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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. — Eric Hoffer
The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that… — Celia Thaxter
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes — Murray Edelman
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply… — William C. Menninger
There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it.… — J. B. Priestley
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble… — Earl Doherty
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the… — Achille Mbembe
Our civilization depends largely on paper. — Pliny the Elder
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work… — Flannery O'Connor
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I… — John B. S. Haldane
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. — Alan Greenspan
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that… — William Zinsser
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. — Napoleon Hill
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline. — Ian Peebles

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