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A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

– John C. Maxwell

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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

– Isaac Newton

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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

– Andrew A. Rooney

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

– Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

– John Ruskin

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

– David Joseph Schwartz

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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

– Brenda Ueland

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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

– E. B. White

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Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

– Andrew Schneider

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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

– Marilyn Monroe

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

– Isaac Asimov

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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

– Frank Lloyd Wright

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A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.

– Dwight D Eisenhower

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All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

– George Bernard Shaw

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. Being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

– George Bernard Shaw

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To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.

– Ernest Hemingway

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Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

– Washington Irving

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I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

– Socrates

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

– Victor Hugo

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

– George Eliot

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