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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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I do look a bit different because Dudley was a very piggish character and about three years ago I lost quite a considerable amount of weight. It means that I can lead a normal life without the baggage of people running after me and shouting things at me. ↗

— Harry Melling

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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

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My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career. ↗

— Helen Suzman

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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. ↗

— William Falconer

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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands. ↗

— Bob Feller

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