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  • Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
  • We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
  • We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
  • There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
  • The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
  • There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.
  • What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Dale Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
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  • Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Dwight L. Moody Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Barry Unsworth Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • A. N. Wilson Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • William James Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • James Baldwin I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Audrey Hepburn I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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