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Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of… — James Surowiecki
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall… — Matt Taibbi
Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it… — Kristin Scott Thomas
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — G. M. Trevelyan
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? — Desmond Tutu
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. — John Updike
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep… — Morihei Ueshiba
Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that… — Ayelet Waldman
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but… — Alan Watts
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. — Alan Watts
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed… — James Whistler
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that… — Thornton Wilder
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas… — George Will
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated… — E. O. Wilson
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and… — Naomi Wolf
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. — Felix Dennis
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what… — Douglas Rushkoff
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled… — Anne Rivers Siddons
Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes.… — Melissa Bank
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever — Charles Bukowski
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to… — Haruki Murakami
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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