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"Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger."
"Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared."
"Little startups are ridiculously overfunded."
"With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich."
"I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things."
"You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more."
"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."
"As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave."
"Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest."
"Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."
"I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say."
"I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise."
"A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others."
"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
"I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely."
"I'm just a little kid from Akron."
"Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!"
"I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it."
"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."
"It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated."
