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• We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

  Paul Davies

  Distance, Thinking, Earth

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, Two, Keys

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

  Lawren Harris

  Courage, Men, Mind

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• It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Distance, Greatness, Yesterday

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, translation by S. Walsh, p. 28, 2006.

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• You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Joy, Delight, Members

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• The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Powerful, Skills

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• Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Healing, Land, Kenya

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Silence, Kenya, Stones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Though it does seem like I have written an immense amount of work, over the years I have pushed the pause button. I have poems that I haven't sent out for publication, mostly based on political/social issues.

  Denise Duhamel

  Years, Issues, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the reasons I like to hang out with scholarly types is they can do a broad reach conceptualization of things that is astonishing to me. I'm really good at the particulars but I have to do an immense amount of critical thinking to make something larger of it.

  Lucy Corin

  Thinking, Reason, Type

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Want, Pressure, Actresses

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's a fun world to exist in, and I relish doing those movies as much as I do the smaller ones. They're always immense fun. I don't know if I am - unless we do a Benji film, I don't think I am an action hero really.

  Simon Pegg

  Fun, Hero, Thinking

  Source: 411mania.com

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• You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

  Chris Gethard

  Perseverance, Luck, Fields

  "Mike Birbiglia and Chris Gethard sit down and chat about ‘Don’t Think Twice’". Interview with Jeff Mitchell, thecinemafiles.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Suffering, Our Actions

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an imperial parallel with English breaking down into, shall we say, North American, European, Australian, and so on. On the other hand, there is this immense, inward-driving influence of radio and television that is bringing us all back together. One could say it's a fight between the two: a fight between regionalism and the standardization through communication.

  William Golding

  Latin, Communication, Fighting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.

  Katie Cleary

  Oil, Atmosphere, Climate

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• People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

  Orison Swett Marden

  People, Minutes, Realising

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• While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

  Martin Luther

  Running, Mirrors, Justice

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• The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

  Ralph Marston

  Giving, Riches, Way

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• Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

  John Lennon

  Flower, Yellow, White

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Life Is, Aim, Possessing

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• Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Cadillacs, Dinner, Wealth

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• The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.

  Albert Pike

  Moving, Perfect, Together

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

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• In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

  George Grosz

  Song, Dog, Morning

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