Quotes with small-scale

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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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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Robert A. Cook We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Bartlett Sher We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Eli Stanley Jones We grow small trying to be great.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Bill Richardson We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Marian Wright Edelman We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • C. A. R. Hoare We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Alan Bennett We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Ann Veneman We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Barton Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Brion James Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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