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Letter "L" » large scale
«Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos»
Author: Francis Ford Coppola
| About:
Consequences,
Passion
| Keywords:
build on, intense, invites, large scale, scale
«The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
destroy, exchange, granted, large scale, level, mask, political, Political freedom, put on, revolution, role, scale, take away, trade, traded, trade in
«Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning»
«Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?»
«What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
ascending, expanding, graduating, gyre, gyres, intense, large scale, pushes, scale, significance, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«I don't think what has happened to me is that different from what happens to most people. The only difference is the scale. People seem to think my problems are larger than life, but they're not larger than my life.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
larger-than-life, larger, large scale, scale
«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.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
celebrated, colonial, commercial, debts, etc., etc, gigantic, infancy, innocents, large scale, manufacture, public debt, scale, slaughter, slaughtered, swell, tax system
«I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
«The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
funding, futurity, large scale, spending money, swindle, swindled, swindles, swindling
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