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• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  Rahul Dravid

  People, Lucky, Publicity

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• The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.

  Ned Sublette

  Years, Spain, Development

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• The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

  Michael Longley

  Gaps, Good Poetry, Poetry Is

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• But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Symphony, Focus, Important

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• If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Beautiful, Museums, Years

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• It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

  Deb Olin Unferth

  Jumping, Bravery, Risk

  Deb Olin Unferth (2008). “Vacation”, McSweeney's

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• The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.

  Timothy Keller

  Sorrow, Happy Endings, Resurrection

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.250, Penguin

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• Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Night, Numbers, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.180

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• In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Enormous Quantities, Society

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• Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Grief, Kids

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• By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Growing Up, Teaching

  Cheryl Richardson (2003). “Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Marriage, Running, Men

  Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature "Amateurs" (1974)

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• Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

  Maria Montessori

  Joy, Soul, Feelings

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• I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

  David Eddings

  Morning, Literature, Sun

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• Edinburgh is an experience
  A city of enormous gifts
  Whose streets sing of history
  Whose cobbles tell tales.

  Alan Bold

  Cities, Edinburgh, Tales

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• I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Thinking, Spirit, Capacity

  "Journalist kidnapped in Somalia: Reunion with mom 'felt like home'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

  James A. Michener

  Pride, Artist, Names

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• The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Insanity, Stomach, Temper

  "On Growing Up Tough". "Dolts and Love Cultists". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.

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• If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Stress, Thinking

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• For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

  Sydney Pollack

  Men, Years, President

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• Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills... Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, World

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

  Richard E. Grant

  Names

  "Richard E Grant: 'I hate restaurants where waiters have a PhD in being up themselves'" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

  Thornton Wilder

  Money, Differences, World

  Thornton Wilder (1962). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  Ezra Pound

  Imagination, Brain, Suspense

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.1208, Delphi Classics

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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