#large

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#condition #developing #developing world #difference #ecological

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. ↗

— Rod Taylor

#degree #early #large #lean #those

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#against #any #citizens #conspiracy #each

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #any #complex #gotten #individuals

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #evidence #eye #good #i

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#audience #certainly #golden #large #large audience

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#architecture #classical #classical music #does #each