Minors Quotes - Page 13

• The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Communication, Cutting, Pieces

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• Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy

  Jonathan Carroll

  Dog, Mean, Angel

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• A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

  Graeme Simsion

  Errors, Hands, Rooms

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mood, Prophet, Found

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• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.28, Routledge

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Dust, Yellow, White

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• The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Regret, Coffee, Skulls

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doe, Feminine, Masculine

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• Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

  Stanley Morison

  Typography, Civilized, Technicalities

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• I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

  Mari Evans

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.

  Dan Sperber

  Play, Copying, Culture

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• Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

  Roger Scruton

  Ignorance, Opinion, Bernard Shaw

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• I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Successful, Trying, Pieces

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• The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

  Mike Trout

  Couple, Home, Numbers

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Believe, Thinking, Important

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• You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

  Avi Arad

  Roles, Wow, Screen Time

  "Avi Arad & Matt Tolmach interview: Spider-Man, Hulk". Interview with Simon Brew, www.denofgeek.com. April 16, 2014.

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• The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

  James Donald

  People, Crime, Significant

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• Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fall, Simple

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• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• In some ways, I think "Pulp Fiction" hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to "Pulp Fiction".

  Roger Avary

  Hurt, Thinking, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Team, Issues, Race

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• A minor operation is one that is done on someone else

  Richard Selzer

  Doctors, Done, Operations

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• I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

  Robinson Cano

  Believe, League, Proud

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• Whether you're playing in the minor leagues or major-league divisions, wherever you are, it's always nice to be recognized as an All-Star.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Stars, Nice, League

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