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We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest… — Charles Darwin
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and… — Charles Darwin
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks,… — Conrad Black
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to… — Dave Barry
The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where… — Friedrich Engels
This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated. — James Cameron
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand… — Queen Victoria
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright… — Nathan Deal
...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the… — Ted Gup
The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word… — Lewis Thomas
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in… — Robert Atkins
The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. — Larry Page
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages… — Gerry McGovern
Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by… — Henry VIII of England
Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand… — Grete Waitz
In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of… — Shunryu Suzuki
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. — D. H. Lawrence
The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy… — John O'Donohue
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so… — Diane Ackerman
My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. — Peter Paul Rubens
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and… — Alfred de Vigny
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off,… — J. B. Priestley
Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it… — Virgil Goode
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. — James Theodore Bent

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