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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Marcel Proust Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Francesco Petrarca To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • William Blake To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • John D. Mcdonald To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Jean Rostand To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Babe Ruth To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • William Shakespeare To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Susan B. Anthony To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Roland Barthes To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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