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"History is a vast early warning system." »Norman Cousins
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"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." »John Updike
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"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." »William J. Broad
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"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?" »Quentin Crisp
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"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge." »Mark Twain
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"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." »Bertrand Russell
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"Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations." »Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
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"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has." »Randolph Bourne
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"Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged." »James Ramsey
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"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." »John Quincy Adams
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen." »Aldous Huxley
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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it." »Charles Dickens
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." »Herman Melville
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"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes." »Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
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"In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon." »Albert Camus
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"Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." »St. Augustine
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"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama." »Real Live Preacher
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"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future." »Gifford Pinchot
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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn." »Pope John Paul II
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." »Saint Augustine
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"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." »George Steiner
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"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." »Richard Dehmel
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"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." »James T. Farrell
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"There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone--many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. Not for nothing is their motto TGIF -- 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do." »Richard Nelson Bolles
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"We can't begin to understand what God has planned for us, But we face each day with a smile, and in his name we trust For in this vast world.....is Love If only we could see the dove It seems sometimes he doesn't care When things get rough and hard to bear But with our Faith we can survive Because in our hearts HE is Alive" »Beth Knight
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"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." »Philip Adams
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