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• There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

  George Takei

  Twilight, Character, Vampire

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• I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

  Helmut Jahn

  Urban, Building, Majors

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Hollywood

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• I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

  Lee Konitz

  Sound, Want, Seven

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• I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  War, Literature, Russian History

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• I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

  Tony Wilson

  Years

  "'I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old'". Interview with Jessica Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2002.

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• Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Betrayed, Matter

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which is minor - or you may get hurt, which is major. Instead of years of meditation, you have this activity that forces you to relax and monitor your breathing and tread that line between living and dying. When you climb, you always are confronted with the edge. Hey, if it was just like climbing a ladder, we all would have quit a long time ago.

  Duncan Ferguson

  Hurt, Men, Hiking

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• God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Order, Principles, Knows

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.

  Robert Grudin

  Baby, Communication, Thinking

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

  Robert Grudin

  Attitude, Lying, Struggle

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.

  Glenn Healy

  Kids, Hockey, Play

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• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?

  Brad Pitt

  Marijuana, Long, Drug

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• If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Rights, America

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.97, Multnomah

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Horse, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

  Henry Harland

  Life, Grace, Ready

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• Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

  John Oliver

  Gun, Law, Florida

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• Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

  John Wooden

  Perfection, Coaching, Details

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• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  James S. Coleman

  Teenager, Eye, Data

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• Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Thinking, Order, People

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Artist, Culture, Talent

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 65, 1976.

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