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"When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be."
"Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom."
"One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out."
"The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues."
"Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!"
"When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better."
"All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower."
"Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
"Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition."
"I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart."
"I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter."
"You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday"
"The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American."
"I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!"
"With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it."
"If we all just took a moment to be a little more thankful and kind to people, or smile at people, it could really change someone's day."
"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
"I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me."
"He who owns little is little owned."
"People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized."
