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"If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness." »Sarah McLachlan
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"Paranoia is a finer scale of reality." »Michael W. Moore
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." »Plutarch
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." »Josh Billings
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"When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions." »R Chamberlain
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor
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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda
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"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain." »David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"My library
Was dukedom large enough." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have." »Joyce Brothers
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"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." »Samuel Smiles
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities." »George Eliot
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"Abundance is, in large part, an attitude." »Sue Patton Thoele
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." »Jane Austen
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them." »George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers." »Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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"A large part of virtue consists in good habits." »William Paley
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"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." »Sir Ralph Richardson
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"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody." »Agatha Christie
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