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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Despite having my share of ups and downs, I have always maintained good health. A large part of that is due to good genes.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.
We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space.
Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
I think there's so many amazing LGBTQ artists, ranging from commercial to underground, that are influencing people at large.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
As for trying to feed off a mouthful of sky, it's a large mouth, hence there's nothing to worry. I wish good luck to everyone.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.
There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.
I have always made my own jewelry. I particulary love emeralds and black diamonds, and I'm always wearing large cocktail rings.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
President Trump cut regulations, allowing businesses large and small to expand and hire. The Democrats created those regulations.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.
I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.
France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.
I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.
I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don't like.
I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.