Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.
You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.
Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
