Quotes with small-minded

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  • Confucius Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Ney This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Edward Coke Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
    Institutes of the Laws of England
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • William Shakespeare Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Abdul Kalam To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bill Gates Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson We are all historians in our small way.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 93
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Marianne Williamson We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
    A Return To Love
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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