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• Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Russia, Numbers

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• Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

  Walter E. Williams

  Littles, Politician, Economy

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• Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

  N. Scott Momaday

  Memories, Grandmother, Blood

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  August, World, Rodin

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• While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, People, Example

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• The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

  Terence McKenna

  Tools, Inspection

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• The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

  Carl Sagan

  Ideas, Numbers, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.284, Ballantine Books

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Climate, Looks

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.19

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• The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Pipeline, Messages

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• If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

  Terence McKenna

  Novelty, Facts, Conservation

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• You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

  Tanc Sade

  Sweat, Rest Of Life, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Looks, World, Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Majority, Principles, Dominance

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Miracle, Serious, Wonder

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• The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Years, Balance, Golden

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Pages From An Old Volume Of Life”, p.162, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

  Havelock Ellis

  Feelings, World, Becoming

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

  Bertrand Russell

  Vanity, Potency, Motive

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.448, Routledge

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• Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Needs, Momentum

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• All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; toward justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of all its own people, and a world of immense and dizzying change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Strong, Men, Justice For All

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.

  Pat LaFontaine

  Blessed, Nhl, Play

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

  Carl Jung

  World, Accumulation, Dangerous

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Mind, Analogies

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• When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

  Edmund Burke

  Ideas, Force, Labor

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Mind, Machines

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• The torture and other sadistic abuses of prisoners in Iraq have done immense damage already to America's reputation in the world, and the worst may be yet to come. Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management.

  Edward Kennedy

  Iraq, America, Abuse

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