"The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing."
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"The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition."
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"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
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"Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you."
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"There are no little things."
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"Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation."
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"If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living."
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"We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct."
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"Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company."
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"Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you."
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"Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love."
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"We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession."
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"I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral."
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"You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great."
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"The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern."
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"If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence."
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"I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it."
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"O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce."
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"I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
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"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."
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