Quotes with small-part

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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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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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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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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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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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  • Dag Hammarskjöld A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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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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  • Seneca A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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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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  • Brad Feld Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Caity Lotz Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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