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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Thought, Find

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill

Until, Desire, Obsession

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Habit, Conditions

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken

Time, Government, Evil

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

Themselves, Criticism, Fury

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

Religion, Made, Communism

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Bill Gates

Public, Voice, Save

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

Life, Yourself, Character

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

Success, After, Others

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George Orwell

Time, Political, Writing

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher

Women, Battle, Rights

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Yourself, Feelings

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying, Dead, Alive

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

Best, Yourself, Self

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

Depression, Therefore

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August von Hayek

History, Gain, Inflation

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

Everyone, Support, Research

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Robert Baden-Powell

Success, Training, Personal

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams

Success, Failure, Successful

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
Christy Turlington

Beauty, Within, Sincerely

For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.
Simon Mainwaring

Time, Real, Through

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo

Power, Secret, Furthering

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

Yourself, Others, Personal

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.
Ron Fournier

While, President, Won

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Christopher Lasch

Art, Mirror, Image

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey

Broke, Frontiers, Unexplored

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.
Thomas Frank

Good, Great, War

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

Home, Future, School

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