Vast Quotes

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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the… — William J. Clinton
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power… — William Cobbett
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas… — Tom Coburn
The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors. — Penn Jillette
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think… — James Jeans
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in… — Phillips Brooks
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown… — Mahatma Gandhi
It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it… — Charles Brent
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects… — John D. Rockefeller
I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today. — King Edward VIII
To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise. — Don Tapscott
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have… — Shunryu Suzuki
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln

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