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  • Carroll Quigley A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Malthus A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
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  • Aldous Huxley A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jane Austen A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Seneca A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Laurence Sterne A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • R. F. Hallock A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Cameron Sinclair A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Sir Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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  • Ralph Richardson Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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