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"I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn."
"I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside."
"When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included."
"To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed."
"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."
"If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done."
"Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos."
"There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one."
"Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain."
"Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence."
"If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently."
"Do your little bit of good where you are."
"On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame"
"You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite."
"Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?"
"Stop making a big deal out of the little things Cause I got big deals and I got little things"
"Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity."
"We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers."
"Naysayers have little power over us - unless we give it to them."
