Bigger Quotes - Page 16

• Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Children, School, Patriotic

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• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Revolution, States

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• After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Sports, Believe

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• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Crush, Lying, Competition

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• Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

  Richard Branson

  Moving, Opportunity, Survival

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• Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

  Richard Branson

  Competition, Growth, Survival

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• As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

  Azim Premji

  Learning, Way, Excellent

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• Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Commit, Something Bigger Than Yourself

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• I notice a lot of people think they can solve their problems with antidepressants. That, I noticed, being like a bigger issue, like, it really strips people of who they are. Like, all your quirks and all your problems, even your depressions and your failures, that's what makes you, you. And there's a lot of drugs out there that will take that away from you.

  Gerard Way

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Russia, Defense

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• Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Age, Twenties

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• It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

  Brian Setzer

  Thinking, Guitar, Rooms

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• I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.

  Thierry Mugler

  Stronger, Want, Common

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• In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

  Billy Gibbons

  Radio

  "Interview: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach". Interview with Ted Drozdowski, www.guitarworld.com. November 13, 2012.

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• It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Differences, Water, Growing

  "Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee: Internet Access Is A Human Right" By Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

  Lois Capps

  Years, Support, Way

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• Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Struggle, People

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• Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.

  Thomas Andrews

  Long Ago, Design, Hull

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• It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.

  Neelie Kroes

  Player, Pay The Price, Order

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• I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Corruption, Greater

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• Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

  Ken Blanchard

  Achievement, Purpose

  Ken Blanchard, Terry Waghorn (1999). “Mission Possible: Becoming a World Class Organization While There's Still Time”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Water, Speed, Sand

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• I just want you to be yourself. Be a bigger yourself.

  Tyra Banks

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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