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  • John Ruskin Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bill Ayers Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bayard Taylor Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Barbara Jordan Life is too large to hang out a sign: "For Men Only.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Smiles Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • André Malraux Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Mark Twain Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Kathleen Raine Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Dave Barry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
    The Statesman (1886) 229
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Aesop Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Betty Williams Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Bryson Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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