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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes… — Charles Babbage
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it… — James A. Baldwin
An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. — Christian Bale
My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince,… — Orlando Bloom
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale. — John Bolton
The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as… — Anthony Bourdain
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -… — Phillips Brooks
Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. — Barbara Bush
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your… — Jeb Bush
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. — Samuel Butler
Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. — Nicolas Cage
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage… — Herman Cain
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:… — Christopher Alexander
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?… — David Cameron
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education. — Anne Campbell

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