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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Alfred Nobel I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Barry Diller I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Steven Spielberg I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Horace If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Woody Allen If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Bryson If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Demick If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bud Grant If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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