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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; an...

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With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down th...

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Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of t...

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I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'locali...

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small m...

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause u...

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My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the e...

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Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength agai...

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in t...

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I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just somet...

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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small ju...

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I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's ...

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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey ...

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...

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But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But c...

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Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to ...

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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, ...

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Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connec...

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the cou...

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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, smal...

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A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once h...

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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is wher...

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I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant ...

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It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget...

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hyp...

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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that ...

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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...

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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, e...

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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small t...

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It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young.No he isn't, ...

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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that...

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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and ci...

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'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. ...

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewher...

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If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall ...

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Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things...

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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a len...

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A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball con...

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The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the sl...

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all t...

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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is ...

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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems ...

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I'm not good at eating small meals. Some people can sit down and be very disciplined. When I sit dow...

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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can re...

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Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries...

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; y...

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Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that ever...

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For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...

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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in...

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The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a fe...

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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...

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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this smal...

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I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't...

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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included ...

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, i...

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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now...

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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues...

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the s...

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I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a ...

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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farm...

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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a sm...

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I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our futu...

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In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...

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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and b...

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...

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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange i...

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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small ...

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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.