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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
'what.' is bombastic introspection. It's large, colourful, and loud but hopefully intimate at the same time.
The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed.
In any merger, when you have large organisations coming together, there will be challenges in terms of culture.
I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.
For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.
I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
For large companies, they are looking at 2020 as the decade of delivery on the promise of digital and technology.
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.
I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.
Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir.
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
I would love Giuliana small, medium, large or extra large and I will love her no matter how much weight she gained.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.