Quotes with small-arms

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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Adam Osborne The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • William Hazlitt The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in thier powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Further North
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Benjamin Cohen The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Brad D. Smith The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Barry Commoner The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Robert Lynd There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Brandon Routh There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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