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  • Camille Paglia The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Marshall Mcluhan The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Henry David Thoreau The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Baba Kalyani The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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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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