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• The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Support, Bricks

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.101, Book Tree

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• Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Friendship, Dog, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Men

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

  Jack London

  Adventure, Men, Land

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.20, Jack London

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• Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Men, Christianity

  "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck", The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. October 26, 1929.

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• It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

  Jandy Nelson

  Effort, Enchanted, Lost

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.173, Penguin

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• One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

  Martin Filler

  Eye, Age, Enlightenment

  Martin Filler (2007). “Makers of Modern Architecture”, New York Review of Books

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Wings

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

  John C. Reilly

  Eight, Games, Feelings

  "Interview: John C. Reilly On His Animated Anti-Hero 'Wreck-It Ralph'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

  Harvey Mackay

  Mistake, Trying, Different

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• The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Tasks

  "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• 'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

  Junot Diaz

  Princess, Imagination, Generations

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• The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

  Susan Cain

  Energy, Waste, Talent

  "'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking,' by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Purpose, Machines

  "Hitler's gold". www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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• There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Passion, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Political, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Happenings, Things Happen

  "Persistance Is the Essence of Creativity" by Orion Jones, bigthink.com.

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• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Views, Giving

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• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that Americans now look back to with such nostalgia was achieved only by a colossal reigning in of markets, by the gargantuan effort of mass, popular organizations like labor unions and of the people themselves, working through a series of democratically elected governments not daunted by the myths of the market.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Organization, People

  "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy". Book by Thomas Frank, 2000.

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• We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.

  Carlos Barrios

  War, Environmental, Transition

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• One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Political, Advantage

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• A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Order, Historical, Events

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• The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doe, Wickedness, Breakfast

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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