In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. . . Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness. . . Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in harm's way to save others. Too many of them paid a terrible, unimaginable price for their heroism. And like so many women in wartime, they were largely forgotten after the war's end. There were no parades for them, very few medals, and almost no mention in the history books.
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
. . . the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise. . . The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.
A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel like everyone is kind of always underlining just, you know, how voracious their appetites for various things are.
A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like. '. . . Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.