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  • One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
  • Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
  • It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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  • Carl Sagan Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
    The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • André Maurois Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Sophia Loren Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Ben Horowitz If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Richard Martin Stern If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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  • Arnold Bennett Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Douglas Adams Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • C. P. Snow There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Bee Wilson When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Abraham Lincoln Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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