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Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
Battles
Jonathan Kozol

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Nations
Stanley Kubrick

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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
Nations
Stanley Kubrick

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Greatness
Jean De La Bruyere

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Pettiness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz

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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Communication
Abraham Lincoln

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In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Boldness
Titus Livy

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.
Worry
Michael Mantell

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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Obstacles
Orison Swett Marden

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Speech is the small change of silence.
Speech
George Meredith

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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Wealth
Wilson Mizner

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
Happiness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Friends and Friendship
Charles De Montesquieu

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love
Love
Mother Teresa

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So many signatures for such a small heart.
Bureaucracy
Mother Teresa

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The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Dreams
Austin O'Malley

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.
Business
David Ogilvy

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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Faults
Jean Paul

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If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.
Atheism
James Phillips

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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Things and Little Things
Marcel Proust

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Crime and Criminals
Jean Racine

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Words
Jules Renard

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Words are the small change of thought.
Words
Jules Renard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun