Quotes with immense

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  • Alan Moore Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Rose Macaulay Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Ann Macbeth Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • George Steiner The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Ovid The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • George Santayana The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joseph De Maistre The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Joseph Roux We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Katherine Mansfield When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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