"One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves."
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"I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood."
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"An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade."
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"The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible."
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"The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden."
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"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."
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"I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now."
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"There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth."
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"See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!"
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"Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work."
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"Every little thing counts in a crisis."
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"Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images."
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"You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful."
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"I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play."
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"You know you are a sweet little heart breaker, foxy lady."
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"We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to."
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"The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time."
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"I was really intrigued by them, became fascinated by them because they were asking questions that couldn't be answered almost, or were making statements that you couldn't quite understand. Like, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M.' That took me through a whole stratosphere of possibilities, and doing a little research and discovered that the M is mercury."
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"A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little."
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"Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine."
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