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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Work, Good, Hard

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill Gates

Science, Poverty, Seen

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Zedong

Different, Big, Sky

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Learned, Election

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom

Made, Prayer, Concern

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Rather

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

Family, Father, Place

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Richard Dawkins

Die, Sun, Ourselves

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
George Harrison

Life, Change, Yourself

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury

Change, Art, Science

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Kindness

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo

Great, Actions, Committed

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Truth, Greater, Leverage

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Children, Cannot, Child

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron

Everything, Friends, After

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris

Power, Angry, Size

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Time, Friend, Flower

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Hillary Clinton

Wisdom, Job, Done

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus

Life, Hope, Single

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Become, Minds, Greatness

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.
Ron White

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Men, Strange

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Ambition, Often

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Denis Waitley

Time, Goal, Become

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge, Ignorance, Give

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience, Youth, Enthusiasm

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Great, Done, Together

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Seems, Temper

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
John Locke

Shoes, Cause, Large

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