#largely

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#educational #good #hands #illiteracy #illiterate

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#cause #contingent #freedom #home #iraq

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#authors #come #funnier #hope #largely

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#cellular #damage #deal #disease #health

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#largely #majority #question #race #silent

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#domestic #earth #expand #exploit #foreign

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#conflict #cuts #deep #doing #every

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

#bravery #courage #doing #escaping #greatness

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#beaten #because #comes #company #direction