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  • I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. -- Mikhail Bakunin
  • I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction. -- Joel Edgerton
  • We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer. -- Alan Autry
  • If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. -- Charles W. Pickering
  • I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs. -- Ricky Jay
  • People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job. -- Martin Donovan
  • George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly. -- Elliott Abrams
  • I'm a big fan of Barack Obama. I think he carries a heavier burden and is held to a greater and higher standard than other candidates : I think there's a large, large portion of this country that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by the political process. -- Chris Carter
  • People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior. -- Joel Osteen
  • A large portion of the Earth's land area is taken up by old varsity jackets. -- Demetri Martin
  • Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development. -- Garry Kasparov
  • A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. -- Theodor Herzl
  • It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. -- John Mihaljevic
  • ... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities. -- Catharine Beecher
  • Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. -- Theodor Herzl
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