Quotes with little-minded

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  • Aesop The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Joe Martin The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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  • Bill Watterson The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
    Speech in Boston, 30-7-1903
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Bacon To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Emily Dickinson To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Alex Trebek We are all experts in our own little niches.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Charlie Chaplin We think too much and feel too little.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Paul Goodman When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Jonathan Swift Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Marquis de Sade ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Bailey Chase 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • William Congreve 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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