Quotes with large-minded

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  • Jean Baudrillard The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bill Gates The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
    The Road Ahead p. 265
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Anna Julia Cooper The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Sir William Watson The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • George Washington The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Richard Rorty The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aaron Klug The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Jane Austen There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Ben Bernanke To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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