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  • 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.
  • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
  • 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.
  • A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
  • 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.
  • 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
  • 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.
  • For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
  • Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Walt Whitman Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Gross Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Byron Howard 'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ford A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Herbert Prochnow A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
    Herbert Prochnow
     
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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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  • 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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