"Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be."
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"Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend."
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"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed."
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"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."
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"Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system."
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"Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
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"He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience."
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"While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things."
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"I had little talent for happiness."
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"Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family."
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"I'm excited to explore lifestyle clothes for a little bit. I don't necessarily have favorite brands."
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"Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."
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"I saw them; there is nothing beautiful about them, just that they are a little higher than the others. Referring to one of the oldest and loveliest groves of redwoods, showing insensitivity to their magnificence."
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"A man like me troubles himself little about a million men."
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"I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that."
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"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?"
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"One should always be a little improbable."
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"It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have."
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"I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move."
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