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«Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning»
«I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| Keywords:
compared, etc., etc, explosion, Explosions, failing, firecracker, graded, grades, grade school, grading, motivation, nuclear, nuclear explosion, scale, schools, staying, the Big, The Explosion
«I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.»
«I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.»
«I tink if people sit down and consider the amount of dedication we put into what we do, we are at the paramount of that scale.»
Author: Lars Ulrich
(Drummer)
| Keywords:
dedication, paramount, scale, scale down, sit down, The Paramount, tink
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
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affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
adversities, adversity, balance, balancing, prosperity, scale, scaled, scaling, weigh, weighing
«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
«I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.»
«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»
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