Quotes with small-minded

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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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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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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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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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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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  • 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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  • Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sam Walton There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Wilson Mizner There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • William Shakespeare There's small choice in rotten apples.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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