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- Nov 07, 2020
Small Quotes
Big ideas about being underestimated.
Several of these small quotes come from people describing being dismissed early — a company written off as minor before it grew, a hometown that never gets credited. If scale itself interests you more, the Big collection makes the opposite case.
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- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
- Island
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
- Nov 07, 2020