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• All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Land, Doubt

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.

  Jon Fratelli

  Thinking, Ideas, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Glasses

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• Smoking marijuana - or most everybody who smokes marijuana deals it in small amounts to their friends, innocently enough. I think it's innocently enough.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Thinking, Smoking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

  Andy Andrews

  Hard Times, Perspective, Able

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  School, People, Dollars

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• In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner.

  Esther Perel

  Home, Worry, Desire

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking.

  Ava DuVernay

  Long, Stories, Documentaries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Men, Littles, Power Corrupts

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• A lot of British actors will look at America as a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Color, Land

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Powerful, Skills

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• Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted to try something else. They came to me and said they wanted to do something that was internet focused and created original content on their site, so they could compete with the funny or dies and what not. So that was the premise, and they gave us a small amount of money, $5000, and from there it turned into the show.

  Daniel Tosh

  Couple, Trying, Comedy

  "Byt Interview: Daniel Tosh". brightestyoungthings.com. November 4, 2010.

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• We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.

  Robert Gillis

  Photography, Milk, Cheese

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• But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

  Norman Jewison

  Talent, Amount

  "Madonna Slams Jewison for Attacking Her Acting" by wenn.com, April 28, 2005.

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• I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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• War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Risk, Ought

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

  Henry Martyn Robert

  Country, Law, People

  Henry Martyn Robert (2000). “Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised”, Da Capo Press

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• Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

  Matthew Collings

  Successful, Color, White

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• It's all about portion control. Grilled fish, a small amount of wild rice and vegetables is a good meal.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Vegetables, Meals, Fishes

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• Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up.

  George Carlin

  Oats, Chocolate, Fats

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• There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'

  Forest Whitaker

  Hate, Hero, Uganda

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

  Martin Schoeller

  Lying, Thinking, Personality

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• Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

  Kevin Allen

  Team, Emotional, Differences

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the land and 20 years ago it wasn't like that.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Years, Land, Population

  Source: bigthink.com

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