Quotes with little-minded

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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Ben Marcus It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Mary Wilson Little It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
    Mary Wilson Little
    American writer
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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