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  • B. B. King Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bill Buckner Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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  • Matthew Prior Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Louise Bogan Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Norman Mailer Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Piccard Before achieving a dream, you need to make very little steps... People don't understand that when you want to make a big dream you have a lot of fastidious little things you have to do.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Walt Whitman Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • David J. Schwartz Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Helen Rowland Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Christopher Morley Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Isaac Watts Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Bratt Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Campbell But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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