Quotes with large-minded

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  • William Shakespeare Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Henry Miller The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • W. H. Auden The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • J. G. Ballard The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Ben Nicholson The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • William Hazlitt The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • C. L. R. James The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Ben Harper The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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