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The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. — Noam Chomsky

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs. — Steve Kroft

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. — Hugh Bonneville

We will not build our offensive game plan around our punter. We will not major in punting. — Rex Ryan

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. — Stuart Chase

He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man. — Anonymous

If is a very big preposition. — John Major

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. — Vint Cerf

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. — John Major

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event. — Leonard Gardner

I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves. — Barry Bonds

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering, — Pema Chodron

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others. — Brian Tracy

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line. — Major Owens

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur. — Baron Hill

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. — Brian Tracy

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. — Herman Daly

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. — Leon Uris

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. — Stefan Molyneux

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy. — John Cassavetes

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. — Jose Canseco

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination. — W. Clement Stone

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. — Ray Kroc

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues. — Rod Parsley

When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight - — Lex Martin

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations. — Patrick Dixon

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. — David Byrne

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. — John Major

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence. — Cora Carmack

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous. — Vidal Sassoon

Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. — Major Jackson

Beast did have one major purpose. That much I do know. A monumental plan to transform humanity and the human world. — Haruki Murakami

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic. — Nathan Wolfe

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography. — Katherine Waterston

Celine Dion is my major inspiration. — Jackie Evancho

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear? — Barry Cryer

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. — Garrison Keillor

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness. — Lynsey Addario

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love. — Dawn Powell

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other. — Sean Stephenson

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself. — Mike Weir

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. — Lewis Black

And this title, retired Major Ryland, gives you authority over my MasterCard? — Billi Jean

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. — Hamish Linklater

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. — Timothy Keller

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. — Ferdinand Foch

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Since I've become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and themselves. — Lee Nichols

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions. — Richard Dawkins

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. — Paulo Coelho

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. — Nate Silver

The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational. — Gary F. Marcus

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P

Largely because of a shortage of ammunition, the United States would be entirely unable to undertake major military operations for at least a year. — David E. Kaiser

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her. — Shemar Moore

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. — Frank Herbert

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall. — Abhijit Naskar

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision. — Narendra Modi

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

Kimberly Green had a major conniption. "Are you insane?" They — Harlan Coben

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us. — Tommy Bolin

I was an English major. — Jenna Bush

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. — Jared Diamond

Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest. — Amanda Eliasch

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. — Norman Cousins

Sometimes you need a major crisis to bring people together. — Kishore Mahbubani

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future. — Pam Grier

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere — John Major

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity ... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. — Randy Alcorn

When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself. — DJ Khaled

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. — Mira Sorvino

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair. — Charles Dance

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. — Win Butler

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege. — Mark Teixeira

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless. — John Major

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there. — Romesh Wadhwani

If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. — G.K. Chesterton

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack. — Takeda Nobushige

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists. — Thomas Boswell

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. — Nathalie Sarraute

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. — Florence King

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. — Rick Allen

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen. — Nik Wallenda

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips. — Jeff Goldblum

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry. — Bernie Sanders

Thus we lived through a major war. The questions in the ghettos was, can we make it through a minor peace? — Maya Angelou

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity. — Norman Tebbit

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! — Angela Lansbury

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. — William Mapother

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. — Steve Carlton

The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes. — Joan D. Chittister

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M.H. Abrams