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Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. Votes: 2

Thom Mayne
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. Votes: 2

Calvin Coolidge
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. Votes: 2

Martin Lewis Perl
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Votes: 2

Voltaire
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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. Votes: 2

Felix Adler
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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. Votes: 2

Bill Ayers
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service. Votes: 2

Peter Thiel
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Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. Votes: 2

James Surowiecki
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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. Votes: 2

Robert Reich
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. Votes: 2

David Foster Wallace
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Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers. Votes: 2

John R. Allen
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. Votes: 2

Earl Blumenauer
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Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers! Votes: 2

Pierre Laval
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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. Votes: 2

Sam Mendes
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I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. Votes: 2

Robert Casey
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer. Votes: 2

Adam Davidson
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My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. Votes: 2

Bjarne Stroustrup
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Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills. Votes: 2

Daphne Koller
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Votes: 2

Jennifer Granholm
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Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' Votes: 2

Alex Berenson
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Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In 'Happier at Home,' I write about my 'shrine to my family' made of photographs. Votes: 2

Gretchen Rubin
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. Votes: 2

Seth Godin
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Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. Votes: 2

John Blair
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. Votes: 2

Patricia Hill Collins
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I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. Votes: 2

Mark Pagel
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation. Votes: 2

Wayne Dyer
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Only small minds are impressed by large numbers. Votes: 0

Arthur C. Clarke
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. Votes: 0

Patricia Cornwell
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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov
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If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours. Votes: 0

Shannon Hale
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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde
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The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers. Votes: 0

Suzy Bogguss
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers. Votes: 0

Evan Osnos
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. Votes: 0

Martin Lewis
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Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize. Votes: 0

Eric Ries
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The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. Votes: 0

Bill Gates
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The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu
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When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. Votes: 0

Daniel Kahneman
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A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. Votes: 0

Sam Smith
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There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations. Votes: 0

Max McKeown
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley
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War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. Votes: 0

Howard Zinn
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[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters. Votes: 0

Mara Liasson
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Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status Votes: 0

Robert Trivers
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When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine
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Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan
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War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it. Votes: 0

George Monbiot
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The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu
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I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort. Votes: 0

Margaret E. Knight
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In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns. Votes: 0

Daniel Suarez
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect. Votes: 0

Vilfredo Pareto
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We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world. Votes: 0

Malcolm Turnbull
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We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working. Votes: 0

Donna Shalala
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we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. Votes: 0

William Stanley Jevons
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Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party. Votes: 0

Rachel Maddow
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There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. Votes: 0

John Knowles
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What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated. Votes: 0

Dianne Feinstein
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In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. Votes: 0

George Orwell
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There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States. Including large numbers of violent criminals, they won't take them back. Votes: 0

Donald Trump
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So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. Votes: 0

David Knopfler
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There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism. Votes: 0

Tony Blair
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Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people. Votes: 0

Eric Drooker
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The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since. Votes: 0

William Poundstone
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If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable. Votes: 0

Roy Barnes
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.

D. J. Taylor
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The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

Terry Pratchett
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We cheer the presence of an openly gay woman or man on television there are large numbers of people in Virginia and other states who see these public affirmations as another step towards the country's oblivion.

Mel White
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Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."

Satish Kumar
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In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.

George Orwell
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The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

Manmohan Singh
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

Dana Rohrabacher
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We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day.

Johann Hari
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But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers "” and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.

Muriel Siebert
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It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous, given that the Internet cannot begin to compete with CNN or the New York Times for this honour.

Philip E. Agre
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This is true to party tyranny and it locks people in, especially outrageous at this time that people feel like they are being thrown under the bus by these two political parties and are demanding, you know, other options in large numbers.

Jill Stein
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The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

Cyprian
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By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

Milton Friedman
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Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information that would require large search costs by individual buyers and sellers in the absence of an organized market.

Douglass North
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Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.

Candice S. Miller
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The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

Sylvia Earle
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

H. L. Mencken
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The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.

Mark Steyn
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In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and technology, many Americans are living under deprivation and anxiety. So happiness is not in accumulation of material goods, it's in sharing and caring.

Satish Kumar
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Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

Roger Ebert
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Long before there was discrimination against blacks, there was discrimination against white southerners. When large numbers of these country people moved north during World War II, they were aggressively excluded from neighborhoods, jobs, and homes - not because of their skin color, but their accents.

Ann Coulter
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Large action arrest small action. Votes: 3 Dai Vernon

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Votes: 4 Voltaire

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