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• We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivation, Powerful, Effort

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• Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

  Teresa of Avila

  Magnificence, Palaces, Remember

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• It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

  Charles Darwin

  Chance, Impossible, Wonderful

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• The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Real, Book

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• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  Walter Sickert

  Passion, Thinking, Misunderstood

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

  David Cronenberg

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

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• We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.

  Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

  Mean, Patriotism, World

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• We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Two, Poverty

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• The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways.

  Lawren Harris

  Courage, Men, Mind

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• Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Distance, Battle

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• No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Spiritual, Worry

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

  Maria Mitchell

  Observation, Activity, Universe

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

  Gary Ryan

  Persistence, Goal, Effort

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• We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

  Will Tuttle

  Children, Apology, Animal

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.411, Lantern Books

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

  Octavian Paler

  Beast

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• [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Country, Believe, Men

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fate, Men, Power

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.392

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• The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Character, Two, Keys

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

  Paul Davies

  Distance, Thinking, Earth

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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