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"ON A SCALE PERSONAL ENOUGH TO BE FELT
BY ALL, BUT BIG ENOUGH TO BE SYMBOLIC, THE
TWO IRRECONCILABLE FAITHS OF OUR TIME -
COMMUNISM AND FREEDOM - CAME TO GRIPS
IN THE PERSONS OF TWO CONSCIOUS AND
RESOLUTE MEN."
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A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. Votes: 3

Matthew Donnelly

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

Thom Mayne

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Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it. Votes: 2

John P. Kotter

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On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. Votes: 2

Noam Chomsky

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As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit. Votes: 2

Luis von Ahn

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Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change. Votes: 2

John P. Kotter

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? Votes: 2

Philip Roth

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Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment. Votes: 2

Jamais Cascio

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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards. Votes: 2

Lee Myung-bak

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If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transport, it can double fish production by 2019. Votes: 2

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed. Votes: 2

Samantha Power

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Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change. Votes: 2

Jeff Goodell

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We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about. Votes: 2

Greg Bear

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I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty. Votes: 2

Jonas Gahr Store

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I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it. Votes: 2

Donna Shalala

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Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity. Votes: 2

Steven Pinker

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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well. Votes: 2

Paul Harris

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The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography. Votes: 2

Martin Filler

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I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. Votes: 2

William McDonough

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As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery. Votes: 2

Judy Biggert

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However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes. Votes: 2

Joe Slovo

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I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. Votes: 2

Sylvia Earle

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The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time. Votes: 2

Steven Sinofsky

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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity. Votes: 2

Ben Parr

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Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games. Votes: 2

Jane McGonigal

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Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself. Votes: 2

Ban Ki-moon

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Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples. Votes: 2

Brian Kilmeade

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Longing on a large scale makes history. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes. Votes: 0

Graciela Chichilnisky

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Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat. Votes: 0

Dinsha Patel

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Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea Votes: 0

Stewart Friedman

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Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale. Votes: 0

Donna Tartt

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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. Votes: 0

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. Votes: 0

Vladimir Putin

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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. Votes: 0

Francis Ford Coppola

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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. Votes: 0

Paolo Bacigalupi

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One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible. Votes: 0

Gail Carriger

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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. Votes: 0

Peter J. Carroll

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Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning. Votes: 0

Paul Kurtz

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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. Votes: 0

Edmund Beecher Wilson

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The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. Votes: 0

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods. Votes: 0

Irwin Redlener

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Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

Claes Oldenburg

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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Votes: 0

Claes Oldenburg

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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Votes: 0

Jeannette Rankin

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If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. Votes: 0

Miyamoto Musashi

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort. Votes: 0

Dan Shechtman

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All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. Votes: 0

Faisal I of Iraq

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I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. Votes: 0

David Chang

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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. Votes: 0

Andy Goldsworthy

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In the US itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Votes: 0

Osama bin Laden

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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. Votes: 0

David Rockefeller

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Iâm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease, Votes: 0

David Chang

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That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. Votes: 0

Phil Collen

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Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people. Votes: 0

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. Votes: 0

John Buchan

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That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along. Votes: 0

Edwin Lefevre

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Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [ their home ] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community. Votes: 0

Joe Biden

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Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.... Votes: 0

E. F. Schumacher

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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. Votes: 0

Dag Hammarskjold

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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy. Votes: 0

Pankaj Mishra

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Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale. Votes: 0

Franz Bardon

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Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network. Votes: 0

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. Votes: 0

Diego Rivera

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The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. Votes: 0

Walter Bagehot

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The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. Votes: 0

Eugene V. Debs

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I loved doing 'Rock of Ages' in N.Y. and that, but its such a large scale, and so many things go into it. Votes: 0

Tom Lenk

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Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes. Votes: 0

Robert Harris

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Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection. Votes: 0

Masami Saionji

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No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. Votes: 0

Bob Black

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A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Branden

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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project. Votes: 0

Zaha Hadid

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Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times. Votes: 0

Richard Ramirez

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I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another. Votes: 0

Craig Mundie

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It was apparent that many of the speeds used in the estimates were too large. The scale guiding wind speeds wasn't in tune with reality. Votes: 0

Joe Schaefer

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The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India. Votes: 0

Jean Dreze

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It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents. Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler

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Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population. Votes: 0

Michel Chossudovsky

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Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. Votes: 0

Yuan T. Lee

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Yuan T. Lee

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Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure. Votes: 0

Cynthia Kauffman

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Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient. Votes: 0

Fred Hoyle

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Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers, Votes: 0

Vladimir Putin

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An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. Votes: 0

John Maynard Keynes

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We've offered direct financial support for a range of renewable energy sources, whether it be large-scale solar, whether it be geothermal, whether it be wave power or wind power. Votes: 0

Denis Napthine

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We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need. Votes: 0

Ruth Simmons

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Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... Votes: 0

Tom Ridge

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Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war. Votes: 0

Mel Duncan

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I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend. Votes: 0

Masaaki Imai

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any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure. Votes: 0

Corinne Maier

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A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print. Votes: 0

Tim Gunn

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We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food. Votes: 0

Frans de Waal

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A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world's needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical. Votes: 0

Mark Z. Jacobson

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The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived. Votes: 0

Dennis C. Blair

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Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences Votes: 0

Ilya Prigogine

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War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale! Votes: 0

Graydon Carter

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The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible. Votes: 0

Friedrich August von Hayek

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If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States. Votes: 0

Norm Phelps

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I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex. Votes: 0

Josephine Decker

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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. Votes: 0

Jim Morrison

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The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment. Votes: 0

Laurent Dubois

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Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew. Votes: 0

Stan Smith

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Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea. Votes: 0

Bertrand Meyer

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A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's. Votes: 0

Hiroyuki Hirano

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When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

Edwin Lefevre

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Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

Camille Henrot

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We donât have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

Arianna Huffington

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

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Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.

James P. Hoffa

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The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.

Martin Rees

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We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere, even though we have no clear idea of what the biological or meteorological consequences may be.

Frank Sherwood Rowland

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If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Jeff Bezos

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Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

Francisco Franco

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The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.

Charles R. Morris

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The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies Â but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

Paul Krugman

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I do make some drawings for wall pieces. I do work out some ideas for large-scale wall pieces where I have to organize words or get proportions right. I do keep them in my files. Not an exhibit or a show; just as part of my records, my archives.

Robert Barry

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The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.

Charles R. Morris

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Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.

Lynn Montross

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Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Volkmar Sigusch

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Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

James Q. Wilson

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The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

Stephen Hawking

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Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else

Hilary Kornblith

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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

Karl Marx

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Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

Roger Revelle

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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

Luis Walter Alvarez

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