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Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. -- Edward Young
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. -- Martin Jacques
The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously. -- Jeb Bush
It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts. -- Aliette de Bodard
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others. -- Paul Haggis
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected. -- Martin Van Creveld
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised. -- Herbert Croly
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully. -- Rebecca Solnit
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. -- Mitt Romney
I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border. -- Jeb Bush
Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices. -- David Perlmutter
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. -- John Lewis
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance. -- Tariq Ramadan
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. -- Stendhal
To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness. -- Gunnar Myrdal
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. -- Barney Frank
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat. -- Vic Snyder
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. -- Andrew Jackson
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. -- Helen Keller
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. -- Carl David Anderson
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after. -- Charles C. Mann
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble. -- Michael Palin
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way. -- Jon Katz
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The great silent majority. -- Richard M. Nixon
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages. -- Hermann Graf Keyserling
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. -- John Fowles
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority. -- P. G. Wodehouse
To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. -- Therese of Lisieux
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. -- Thomas Carlyle
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. -- James Madison
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs
The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost. -- Paul Washer
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. -- John Lyman Chatfield
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. -- Richard M. Nixon
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful. -- Brian Tracy
Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great. -- James C. Collins
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. -- William Osler
the great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood -- Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. -- Otto von Bismarck
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause. -- Paul Robeson
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. -- Abraham Lincoln
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. -- Albert Ellis
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. -- Martin Van Creveld
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. -- Charles Caleb Colton
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. -- John F. Kennedy
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. -- Lucy Stone
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous. -- Barbara Cartland
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill. -- Herbert M. Shelton
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things. -- John Boehner
In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass. -- Warren Buffett
Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational. -- Dolores Huerta
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it. -- Martin Luther
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten. -- Lev Grossman
The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats them. -- Sigmund Freud
The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too. -- Eric Close
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it. -- Edwidge Danticat
I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world. -- Condoleezza Rice
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized. -- John Stuart Mill
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed. -- Paul Washer
For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable. -- Tzvetan Todorov
The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large. -- Bertrand Russell
Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence. -- Laurence Steinberg
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs? -- Ronald Reagan
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves -- Ray Bradbury
The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult. -- J. William Fulbright

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