Largely Quotes
701 quotes by 589 authors
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Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
— David Wallace
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The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In…
— Emily Oster
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Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by…
— John Granger
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The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our…
— John F. Kennedy
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The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than…
— Phil Gramm
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[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just as…
— Donald Trump
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Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of an organization in…
— Patrick Lencioni
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The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook…
— Yuri Milner
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of…
— Donald Cram
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Flying is done largely with the imagination.
— Wolfgang Langewiesche
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical…
— Edward Bernays
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market…
— Brian Tracy
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You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
— Jonah Lehrer
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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring,
— Paul Wolfowitz
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At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms…
— James E. Faust
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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement…
— H.G. Wells
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The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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