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• Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Decision

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Age, Done

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• A little man is running a jewelry store. A man runs in saying, Okay, take my watch, put on a new band, install a new battery, clean the case, install a new crystal, and tune it up. I will be back in a half hour for it. Thanks! and runs out the door. The little jeweler says, C-C-C-Come in?

  Henny Youngman

  Running, Men, Doors

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• Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Religious, War

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mom, Sports, Hurt

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• I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

  Brian McFadden

  Men, House, Ferrari

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mother, Simple, Men

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• Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

  Elizabeth I

  Father, Men, Alive

  Quoted in Christian Review, Oct. 1846

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• ...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Long, Littles

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.60, Penguin UK

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• In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

  Anton Chekhov

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, February 5, 1888.

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• I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

  Jim Carrey

  Spiritual, Men, Long

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Littles, Little Things

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Thinking, Important

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Mean, Men, Teeth

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Rights, Iron

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.261, 谷月社

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• In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

  Wilder Penfield

  Ignorance, Destiny, Men

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

  Leonard J. V. Compagno

  Men, Littles, Power Corrupts

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• Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Ocean, Men

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• Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Giving, Littles

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• Can we get out of this system something good for us? We could, if we were united with an intelligent self-interest that we could push, we might be able to get something. But, America is out to destroy the little man - I'm talking about those in the highest places. Flint, Michigan [contaminated water supply] was not an accident, that's by design.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Intelligent, Men, Self

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

  Joshua Malina

  Men, Thinking, Hurtful

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• Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

  J. Cole

  Jobs, Men, Littles

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• I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men, Littles, Formal

  "Schwarzenegger disputes alleged pro-Hitler quote". www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Liars

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