"Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size."
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"Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word."
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"My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it."
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"You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill."
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"Clothing sizes are weird, they go: small, medium, large and then extra large, extra extra large, extra extra extra large. Something happened at large, they just gave up. They were like, 'I'm not doing any more adjectives; you just keep putting extras on there.' We could do better than that: small, medium, large, whoa, easy, slow down, stop it, interesting, American."
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"If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible."
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size."
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"Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former."
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"Size is no guarantee of power."
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"It's not the size of the army but the power within the army."
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"No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own."
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"To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company."
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"The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom."
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"I've always believed in quickness over strength and size."
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"The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules."
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"It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life."
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"Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization."
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"It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it."
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"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
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"My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans."
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