Quotes with small-arms

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  • Robert Herrick Great men by small means oft are overthrown.
    Hesperides (1648) Loss From The Least
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Jesse Jackson Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • James Graham He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Jean Paul Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Asa Gray I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Gloria Swanson I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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  • Marilyn Monroe I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Fidel Castro I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • James Freeman Clarke I can do small things in a great way.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Lewis Grizzard I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
    Lewis Grizzard
    American journalist (1946 - 1994)
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  • E. F. Schumacher I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.
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