Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."
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Giants
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Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose!"
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
Business Executive
"You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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"The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it."
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"We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain."
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"A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral."
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"The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun."
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"Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something."
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"I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
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"Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?"
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"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."
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"Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender."
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"Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it."
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"I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?"
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"The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors."
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"In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them."
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"The work for giants...to serve well the guns!"
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"In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design."
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"A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants"
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"With books we stand on the shoulders of giants."
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"Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
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"See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small."
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