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Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated… — Suzanne Segal
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able… — Rebecca West
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast… — Bill Bryson
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed… — Tom Robbins
Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present… — Harry S. Truman
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. — H. L. Mencken
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I mean by affirmative obligation is that… — Richard Masur
At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. — Paul Robeson
I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over… — Natan Sharansky
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross… — Russell Kirk
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in… — Denis Diderot
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but… — J C Ryle
There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and… — Carl Sagan
It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country… — Yann Martel
The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running… — Michael D. Barnes
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect… — Nelson Mandela
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit… — Eric Wolf
The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar… — Mao Zedong
Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the… — Philip Jose Farmer
For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of… — Christopher Bond
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it… — Samuel Eliot Morison
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside,… — Terry Teachout
Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see,… — Pema Chodron
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would… — Ibn Arabi

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