Large Scale Quotes - Page 5

• The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

  Jean Dreze

  Government, India, Hunger

  "Dying of hunger in a land of surplus" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2002.

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• To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

  Bob Black

  World, Libertarian, Corporations

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• 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.

  Camille Henrot

  Wall, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Individual Effort, Magic

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• The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

  Paul Nitze

  Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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• I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.

  Donna Shalala

  Thinking, Nuts, Program

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• Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

  Paul Krugman

  Self, Grandfather, Inward

  "The Great Illusion" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 2008.

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• Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

  Fred Hoyle

  Stars, Achievement, Century

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• Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

  John Buchan

  Organization, Quality, Merit

  John Buchan (1937). “Augustus”

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• Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Forever, Shapes

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence.  At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

  Masami Saionji

  Perfect, Scales, Existence

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• Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

  Roger Revelle

  Ocean, Past, Rocks

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moving, Science, Numbers

  "Review of Cosmology," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, p. 107-8, 1948.

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• Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, Thank God

  "Vladimir Putin Issues New 'Large Nuclear Power' Warning to West". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2004.

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

  Joan Robinson

  Fall, Years, Two

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.27, Academic Press

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• Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Rain, Loss, Sea

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• The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.

  Francisco Varela

  Organization, Brain, Behaviour

  "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.

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• No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Team, Taken

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• The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

  Bill Vaughan

  Boredom, Revolution, Causes

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• Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  History, Biographies, Scales

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• The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Doe, Credit, Rivals

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Moving, Intuition, Doe

  "Of mind and matter: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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