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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson

Family, Bad, Someone

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Children, Same, Common

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Nation, Fish

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Life, Peace, Great

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu

Great, Difficult, Easy

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro

Faith, Men, Revolution

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu

Great, Made, Deeds

A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Great, Nation, Fish

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Good, Girl

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Ron Paul

Life, Work, Government

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Work, History

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

Time, Death, Long

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Lee Haney

Exercise, Goals, Build

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Success, Soul, Makes

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Minds, Concerned

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

Truth, Human, Few

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Step, Mankind, Leap

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright

Great, Live, Country

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Fool, Sleep, Child

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams

Family, Bird, Hands

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Big, Ability

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok

Family, Home, Reality

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Time, Best, Care

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Love, Once, Idea

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
Steve Jobs

Big, Compete, Tablets

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking

Stupidity, Greed, Cannot

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields

Whiskey, Carry, Snake

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

Great, Talk, Wine

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson

God, Nothing, Insecure

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