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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

They just neglected a large portion of the front row.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.