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• The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty… — Thomas Malthus
• Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin
• Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume
• The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men… — Walter Russell
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• The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition… — Martin Luther
• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased… — William Banting
• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne
• I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. — Juliet Stevenson
• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent… — Vannevar Bush
• The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in… — Virginia Woolf

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