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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions… — Karl Lehmann
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds… — Kathleen McDonald
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Henry Ward Beecher
Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel… — Frederick Lenz
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We… — Anna Quindlen
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw.… — David Adam
I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you… — Rand Paul
Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time. — Damon Lindelof
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is… — Robert Reich
The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or… — Stephen Elop
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. — Thomas de Quincey
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all… — Jason Calacanis
A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. — Joseph Addison
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve,… — Juvenal
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows… — John Godfrey Saxe
And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace. — Robert Montgomery
It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and… — Art Buchwald
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who… — George Steiner

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