"The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little."
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"Little boats should keep near shore"
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"Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough."
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"A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy."
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"To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire."
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"Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little."
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"No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away."
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"Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed."
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"No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less."
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"For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood."
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"Good businesses can survive a little bad management."
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"This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."
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"I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there."
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"Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest."
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"Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia."
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"Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."
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"The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind."
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"If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end."
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