Vastly Quotes
170 Vastly quotes by 150 unique authors
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The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must…
— Oliver Sacks
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Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit…
— Albert Einstein
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In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine…
— Henry James
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
— Bill Bryson
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These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent…
— Douglas Adams
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He smiled his dimpled smile. "Well, I've found something in my heart, my love, and it's you. You fill it up so completely that I…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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I find prostitutes vastly important.
— Richelle Mead
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The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I have read a great deal of economic theory for over 50 years now, but have found only one economic "law" to which I can…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.
— Richelle Mead
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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
— H. L. Mencken
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We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase…
— John Woodward
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Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed…
— Peter Drucker
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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was…
— Philip Roth
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If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its…
— Sebastian Seung
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When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in…
— Jamie Bamber
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly…
— Nikola Tesla
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I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a…
— Julian Assange
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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang…
— F. Sionil Jose
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I feel deeply my responsibility to teach sacred things. I am so aware that the world is changing and will be vastly different from the…
— James E. Faust
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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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