"Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls."
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"The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
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"Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them."
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"A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up."
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"You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture."
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"I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."
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"I can say with absolute confidence that the general public of Burma would be very little affected, if at all, by sanctions. So far, the kind of investments that have come in have benefited the public very little indeed. If you have been in Burma long enough, you will be aware of the fact that a small elite has developed that is extremely wealthy. Perhaps they would be affected, but my concern is not with them but with the general public."
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"My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire."
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"We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always."
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"What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality."
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"for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."
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"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."
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"Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)"
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"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd."
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"A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life."
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"This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own."
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"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability."
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"In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good."
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"I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'"
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