#large number

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. ↗

— Felix Adler

#among #ceased #church #communities #diminishing

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#basic needs #dependent #government #increasingly #large

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. ↗

— Seth Godin

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

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

— Martin Lewis Perl

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I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. ↗

— Robert Casey

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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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