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Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Thinking, Consciousness, Aspect

Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

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I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

Og Mandino

Beach, Sweet, Memories

Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

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A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

John Singer Sargent

Portraits, Mouths, Littles

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My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

Colleen McCullough

Husband, Feet, Mouths

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My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

Jordan Belfort

Queens, Wall, Years

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When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.

Elizabeth Bowen

Live In The Moment, Stories, Faces

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As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

Ernst Haeckel

Mother, Men, Arrogance

"The riddle of the universe".

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Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition

Murray Gell-Mann

Mean, Outcomes, Chaos

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And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

Danny Wallace

Stars, People, Gone

Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House

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Even if is a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference in your life, and likely in others' lives as well... Yes is what keeps us all young. Yes is a tiny word that can do big things. Say it often.

Eric Schmidt

Inspirational, Mean, Differences

"Google’s Eric Schmidt to graduates: 'Find a way to say YES to things'". Eric Schmidt's keynote speech at graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2012 of the University of California at Berkeley, news.berkeley.edu. May 12, 2012.

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Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

Harry Bruno

Teenage, War, School

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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Garry Trudeau

Perspective, Pieces, Littles

Interview with David Plotz, www.slate.com. October 25, 2010.

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And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

Adam Zagajewski

Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner of words and phrases, some helpful, some not. Still, we are conditioned to say something, even if it is only 'I am sorry for your loss.' But for an absence, for someone who was never there at all, we are wordless to capture that particular emptiness. For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent, ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

Laura Bush

Baby, Children, Sorry

Laura Bush (2010). “Spoken from the Heart”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.

Noy Holland

Baby, Art, Reading

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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger

Struggle, Thinking, Views

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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Andrew Sullivan

Popular Vote, Minorities, Despised

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And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

Ben Gibbard

Prayer, Father, Plans

"What Sarah Said". Song by Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer, August 30, 2005.

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Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Law, Needs, Pieces

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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

Diana Vreeland

Fashion, Littles, Steps

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Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe.

Bruce Cockburn

Rip, Rivers, Forever

Song: Cry Of A Tiny Babe, Album: Nothing But a Burning Light

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Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

G. H. Hardy

Sacrifice, Men, Order

G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

James Gleick

New York, Butterfly, Air

Chaos prologue (1987)

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The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it serves us very well over the years, allowing us to pick and choose projects, and keeping our financial independence from our clients. We actually have a rather good track record, because we do select projects carefully. Most of our ideas don't eat dust but glimpse the light of day because we find it much more helpful to spend some serious time and effort before we start working on a project, rather than suffer through it afterwards.

Stefan Sagmeister

Moving, Dust, Years

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It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

Laura Miller

Butterfly, Flying, Feelings

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