Quotes 61 till 80 of 533.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
Source: My Life as Me: A Memoir -
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
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Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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