Quotes with small-minded

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  • Bill Flores A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bruce Sterling A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Abdoulaye Wade A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Burt Bacharach A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • William E. Vaughan A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Achille Poincelot A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • George Eliot A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Cyril Connolly A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Campbell Brown After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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