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• My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

  John Adams

  Country, Men, History

  John Adams (1841). “Letters, Addressed to His Wife”, p.133

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• Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.

  Sloane Crosley

  Necks, Drag, Over It

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.141, Penguin

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• You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Unique, Special, Like You

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• I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Knowledge, Insignificant Things

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• The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grief, Ignorant, Might

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• God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

  Richard J. Foster

  Inspirational, Religious, Heart

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• Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Stupid, Unification Church, World

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• At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

  William Banting

  Reflection, Editors, Doubt

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.9

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Civilization, Environmental, Done

  Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

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• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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• Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

  Grace Slick

  Events, Proportion

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

  Gayle Forman

  Littles, Sometimes, Little Things

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.35, Penguin

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• Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, People, Personality

  Marcel Proust (2008). “The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

  Julien Benda

  Powerful, War, Mind

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Practice, Criticism

  Essays (Second series) 'Nominalist and Realist'

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• It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.

  William P. Young

  Events, Action, Remarkable

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• Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

  Ann Leckie

  Decision, Feelings, Emotion

  "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.

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• The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Thinking, Law

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

  David Deutsch

  Feelings, Cows, Logic

  "Books for giving: science" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Emptiness, Empty, Loud

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• A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

  Maria Montessori

  Intellectual, Nihilism, World

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.

  Sarada Devi

  Honor, Tasks, Should

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• It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Insignificant Things, Half, Hours

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• It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Soul, Unbearable, Enough

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.538, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

  Dot Richardson

  Success, Sports, Team

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