"Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve."
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"I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money."
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"My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions."
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"For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise."
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"The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future."
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"You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy."
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"Absolute size by itself is no indicator of success and achievement, let alone of managerial competence. Being the right size is."
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"Beauty is not between a size 0 and a size 8. It's not a number at all."
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"In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean."
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"In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans."
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"There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate."
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"We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity."
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"I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size."
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"Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I."
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"To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that 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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"Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age."
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"Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting."
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"You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit."
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"England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size."
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"The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?"
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