A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Mary A. Ward

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
Chris Van Hollen

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
Carol Kane

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
Jane Roberts

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
William R. Benet

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
Bruce Jackson

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Sydney Pollack

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
G. B. Trudeau

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?
Louis Farrakhan

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
Kim Campbell

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

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

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling