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You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an… — Wallace Stegner
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short,… — Barack Obama
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the… — Paolo Bacigalupi
Companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time. — Jamie Dimon
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when… — Ansel Adams
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother… — Edward Abbey
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with… — Stan Getz
On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,… — Kenzo Tange
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might… — Anne McCaffrey
Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power,… — Frank Knight
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers. — Frederick W. Smith
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. — Charlotte Bunch
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. — Arthur Koestler
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars… — Bjorn Lomborg
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species… — James Hansen
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a… — Umberto Eco
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years… — Honore de Balzac
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler

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