"A scholar has to know a little of everything."
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"Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone."
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"I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics."
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"One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves."
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"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."
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"I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier."
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"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
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"In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain."
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"Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion."
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"The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is."
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"Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
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"It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory."
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"We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme.""
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"Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on."
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"The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."
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"Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!"
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"My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
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"People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish."
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"The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention."
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"I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal."
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