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It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of… — Alfred Adler
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of… — Jerome K. Jerome
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence… — Tom Robbins
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive… — Evelyn Underhill
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific… — Robert Motherwell
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they… — Alain de Botton
Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt… — Harry Kemp
The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything. — Theodore Sturgeon
The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast… — Ernie Pyle
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up… — Ben Horowitz
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts. — Paul Ryan
Women are one of the most important segments of the adventure travel industry. Women make the vast majority of travel decisions in families - not… — Christopher Doyle
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies… — Carl Pope
Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the… — Wyndham Lewis
Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg. — Richard Belzer
There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving.… — Pat Toomey
Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world… — Arthur J. Deikman
We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast… — Rachel Carson
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! — John Muir
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been… — Theodore Roosevelt

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