"But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here."
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"It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models."
"I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast."
"But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter."
"How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!"
"I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down."
"To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage."
"Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say."
"When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp."
"When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous."
"Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned."
"Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!"
"A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy."
"Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish."
"Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se."
"A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance."
"Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you."
"Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals."
"Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths."
"It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all."