Quotes with small-minded

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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Albert Einstein In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Bryan Robson In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Carl Sagan In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Agnes Smedley In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Mother Teresa In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Douglas Adams In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bill Moyers In those days, affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
    Help, speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 3 March 2007, Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Karen Horney Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
    Karen Horney
    German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Brendan Gill It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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  • Bill Condon It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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