Quotes with small

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  • Barry Commoner The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brandon Routh There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Anais Nin There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sam Walton There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Wilson Mizner There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • William Shakespeare There's small choice in rotten apples.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Confucius Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Ney This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Edward Coke Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
    Institutes of the Laws of England
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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