Quotes with small-minded

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  • Bob Taft What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • A. Brisbane Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
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  • John Ruskin When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Barbara Amiel When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bart Stupak When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Cass Sunstein When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Italo Calvino When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Napoleon When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Carly Fiorina When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Balthazar Getty When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Ben Hecht When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bill Clinton Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bill Hicks Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Asa Gray Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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