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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
Great
Men
Our
Those
Great Majority
More
Instead
Fellow
Majority
Fellow Men
Lot
Privileged
Than
Then
Should
Fortunate
Who
Compare
Appears
Comparing
Among
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew Jackson
Government
Great
Confidence
People
Intelligence
Fear
Result
Despair
Virtue
Our
Great Majority
Majority
Cannot
Republic
Founded
My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.
Lionel Sosa
Work
Hard Work
Great
Achievement
Welcome
Innovation
Guess
System
Would
Embraced
Great Majority
Students
Majority
Rewarded
Where
Teachers
Hard
Applauded
Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.
Charles C. Mann
Day
Great
Tomorrow
Will
Great Majority
Cases
Between
Particular
Come
Majority
Scientists
Been
Huge
Links
Cure
Huge Numbers
Diseases
Established
Patients
After
Translated
Help
Numbers
Treatments
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young
Life
Death
Great
Solitude
Great Majority
Majority
Us
Desert
The great majority of men are attracted to feminine women who do not possess the body type of Michael Phelps. Beyonce is desired not because of her 'diabolical femininity,' but simply because of her femininity.
Gad Saad
Great
Women
Men
Type
Possess
Great Majority
Simply
Beyonce
Attracted
Majority
Because
Diabolical
Feminine
Femininity
Michael
Body
Who
Her
Desired
To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.
Gunnar Myrdal
Alone
Great
Problem
Negative
White
Difficult
Settle
Embarrassing
Moral
Great Majority
Something
Majority
Equally
Makes
Leave
American
Connotations
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
John Lewis
Great
Voting
Minority
Past
Other
Great Majority
Percentage
Cast
Voters
Votes
Majority
American
Ohio
African
African-American
In The Past
Process
Places
Means
Large
Large Percentage
Early
Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family member or friend of the victim. When a young child is the victim, the attack almost always occurs in the family home, and the perpetrator is usually a 'good' dog that had not previously behaved in a menacing way.
Jon Katz
Good
Home
Great
Family
Dog
Random
Young
Victim
Way
Bites
Biting
Member
Great Majority
Menacing
Attack
Attacks
Had
Almost
Majority
Always
Occurs
Dogs
Perpetrator
Friend
Child
Behaved
Family Member
Young Child
Belong
Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
M. J. Rose
Great
Stage
Our
Books
Visions
Recognize
Entertainers
Great Majority
Faces
Voices
Majority
Sells
Trained
Stories
Us
Bodies
Actor
Presence
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Great
Become
Live
Think
Other
Everybody
Great Majority
Majority
Identity
Least
Human
Different
Human Beings
While
Aspiration
Beings
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.
Paul Haggis
Good
Great
People
Good People
Others
Great Majority
Know
Majority
Genuinely
Conditions
Improving
Interested
Planet
Who
Helping
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
Rebecca Solnit
Great
Survival
People
Calm
Improvise
Others
Resourceful
Great Majority
Risk
Beyond
Majority
Beautifully
Altruistic
Conditions
Themselves
Even
Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.
Reggie Jackson
Best
Great
You
Mistake
Trouble
Power
Everybody
Batter
Weapons
Inside
Threat
Great Majority
Only
Had
Knew
League
Majority
Box
Because
Spot
Got
Making
Were
Pitch
Pitchers
Afraid
Away
In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.
Robert Kennedy
Government
Leadership
Strength
Great
Law
Men
Our
Great Majority
Lawyers
Majority
Executives
Been
Provided
Chief
Trained
Store
Needed
The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Great
Determination
Church
Oppose
Claims
Ancient
Great Majority
Nobility
Doctrine
Majority
Were
Ceremonies
England
United
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
Tariq Ramadan
Great
Ignorance
Problem
Fear
Overcome
Alien
Hatred
Islam
Society
Great Majority
About
Know
Majority
Nonetheless
American
Much
Violent
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