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Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. -- Thom Mayne
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. -- Martin Lewis Perl
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire
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. -- Felix Adler
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. -- Bill Ayers
The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service. -- Peter Thiel
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. -- James Surowiecki
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people. -- Robert Reich
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. -- David Foster Wallace
Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. But al Qaeda doesn't have to be anywhere in large numbers. -- John R. Allen
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe. -- Earl Blumenauer
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! -- Pierre Laval
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. -- Sam Mendes
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. -- Robert Casey
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer. -- Adam Davidson
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills. -- Daphne Koller
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. -- Jennifer Granholm
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' -- Alex Berenson
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In 'Happier at Home,' I write about my 'shrine to my family' made of photographs. -- Gretchen Rubin
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. -- Seth Godin
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops. -- John Blair
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. -- Patricia Hill Collins
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. -- Mark Pagel
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation. -- Wayne Dyer
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. -- Patricia Cornwell
Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income. -- Isaac Asimov
If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours. -- Shannon Hale
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. -- Oscar Wilde
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers. -- Suzy Bogguss
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers. -- Evan Osnos
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. -- Martin Lewis Perl
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize. -- Eric Ries
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. -- Cornel West
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. -- Bill Gates
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them. -- Sun Tzu
When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact. -- Daniel Kahneman
A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else. -- Sam Smith
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations. -- Max McKeown
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires -- Bertrand Russell
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. -- Aldous Huxley
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. -- Howard Zinn
[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters. -- Mara Liasson
Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status -- Robert Trivers
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. -- Saint Augustine
Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. -- Richard Flanagan
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it. -- George Monbiot
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers. -- Sun Tzu
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort. -- Margaret E. Knight
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect. -- Vilfredo Pareto
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world. -- Malcolm Turnbull
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. -- Donna Shalala
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. -- William Stanley Jevons
Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party. -- Rachel Maddow
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. -- John Knowles
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. -- Dianne Feinstein
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. -- George Orwell
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. -- Donald Trump
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. -- David Knopfler
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism. -- Tony Blair
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. -- Eric Drooker
The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since. -- William Poundstone
If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable. -- Roy Barnes

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