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• When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

  Adam Sandler

  Country, Kids, Army

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• Samsara-the Wheel of Existence, literally, the "Perpetual Wandering"-is the name by which is designated the sea of life ever restlessly heaving up and down, the symbol of this continuous process of ever again and again being born, growing old, suffering, and dying. (It) is constantly changing from moment to moment, (as lives) follow continuously one upon the other through inconceivable periods of time. Of this Samsara, a single lifetime constitutes only a vanishingly tiny fraction.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sea, Names, Single Life

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• It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Want, Jerk

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

  Clemence Poesy

  Hands, Jeans, Long

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• There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.

  Marsha Norman

  Dream, Independent, Laughing

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• Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Butterfly, Doors

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.103

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• [P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

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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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