"Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more."
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"...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."
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"The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much."
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"Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter."
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"Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength."
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"Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit."
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"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
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"Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly."
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"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about."
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"There are a lot of little things about our bodies that we all know, but we never talk about. That's what interests me. These are practically universal experiences; nobody mentions them! Some of them are disgusting. Some of them are appallingly revolting and degrading even to the most degenerate mind. So let's get started with a couple of them."
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"Appearances have very little to do with happiness."
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"Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it."
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"Of a little thing a little displeaseth."
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"Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought."
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"Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad."
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"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"
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"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
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"Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician."
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"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we."
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"Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it."
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