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The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated.

That is one trouble about trading on a large scale.You cannot sneak out as you can when you pike along.

Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

all large cities are alike at night.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they've been ordered to leave the United States. Including large numbers of violent criminals, they won't take them back.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.