#large

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

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It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#access #availability #been #benefits #children

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. ↗

— James Lovelock

#any #around #been #come #evolution

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#enough #feel #had #largely #last

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#character #colored #come #contact #day

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#doing #effort #great #great way #into

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#achievement #best #big #depend #get

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. ↗

— Reginald Maudling

#bloody #bring #country #god #large

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#developed #doing #emotionally #everything #go