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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • George Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Ruskin How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Asa Gray I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Henry James I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • John Major I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adam Clayton I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Burnie Burns I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Lewis Grizzard I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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  • Beck I have a fear of heights, so falling off something very tall. But I've conquered a good amount of my fears. I guess most people would have the fear of getting up in front of a large audience of people and making a fool of themselves. I've gotten over that.
    On the Couch, NME
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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