Quotes with small

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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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  • Marcel Proust What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Rex Steven Sikes What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bob Taft What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • A. Brisbane Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
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  • John Ruskin When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Barbara Amiel When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bart Stupak When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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