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Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Jane Jacobs

Errors, Cities, Design

Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.6, Vintage

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Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

James F. Cooper

Book, United States, Louisiana

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Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

Theodore Tilton

Book, Lectures, Journalism

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And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

Margaret Cho

Gun, Waiting, Forever

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[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Philosophy, Doors, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Bessie Head

Character, People, Suffering

Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

Nellie Melba

Beautiful, Song, Art

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I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

Augusto De Luca

Art, Keys, Doors

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The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

Ignorant, Three, Minorities

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One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they give off is most repulsive, but we do not rise up and make a row about this, because we feel hopelessly in the wrong in intruding into these family scenes uninvited.

Mary Kingsley

Running, Smell, Giving

Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

Patricia Moyes

Cat, Mutual Benefit, Two

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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo

Sadness, Poetry, Answers

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And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.

Josephine Winslow Johnson

Time, Blessed, Heart

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It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

Megan Fox

Pressure, Amount

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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

Criss Angel

Animal, Circus, Firsts

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We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.

Godfrey Higgins

Daughter, Buddhist, Son

Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.244, Jazzybee Verlag

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The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.

Sarah Siddons

Space, May, Awful

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Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Rani Mukerji

Responsibility, Judging, Important

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Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

Charles Dickens

Oysters, Turkeys, Games

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His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

Edward Gibbon

Ignorance, Hands, History

Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

J. G. Ballard

Stars, Energy, Orbit

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If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.

Georges Bataille

Humanity, Want, Realizing

Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.26, A&C Black

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In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

Ron Kind

War, Cost, Subsidies

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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Aleister Crowley

Yoga, Hands, Two

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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Frank Crowninshield

Country, Smart, Book

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