Small Amounts Quotes

• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Atheism, Spirituality

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Peace, Fighting, Foxholes

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Peace

  "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Stand-up act, edition.cnn.com. 1972.

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• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Reality

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• I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.

  William J. Clinton

  Marijuana, Thinking, Needs

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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• The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Foolery

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

  Christopher Ryan

  Mean, Years, Civilization

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• Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.

  Rachel Cohn

  Reading, Romance, Everlasting Love

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.135, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

  Francis Chan

  Stupid, Ocean, Sleep

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.21, David C Cook

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• I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teacher, Water, Arseholes

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Cutting, Inheritance

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Looks, World

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• Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

  John Hawkes

  Levels, Uncomfortable, Infamy

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• Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.

  Marilu Henner

  Swings, Brain, Balance

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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Acceptance, Long, People

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• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2012.

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• You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

  Shakira

  Sacrifice, Achieve, Anything In Life

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• At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

  Charlize Theron

  Peace, Realization, Facts

  "Interview: Charlize Theron" By Fred Topel, www.ign.com. September 13, 2004.

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• When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

  Jesse Ventura

  Drinking, Water, Doe

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• The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Rip, People, Revolution

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• Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Fire, Achievement, Desire

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• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

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