Minors Quotes - Page 28

• I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.

  Dave Barry

  Phones, Medicine, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2010). “I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood”, p.96, Penguin

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• If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Kids, Imperfection

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• Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.

  Liu Bei

  Winning, Men, Evil

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• At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

  Mike Quade

  League, Coaching, Important

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• A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

  Howard Staunton

  Two, Three, Pieces

  Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

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• Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

  Howard Staunton

  Party, Player, Eight

  Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.2

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• The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

  Howard Staunton

  Queens, Knights, Bishops

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook”, p.24

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• A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, People, Over You

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• The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!

  Albert Martin

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

  Michael Connelly

  Change, Regret, Book

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• All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie Kalokerinos.

  Irwin Stone

  Loss, Dark, Doctors

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• If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown.

  Milton Friedman

  Writing, Government, Important

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.45, Hoover Press

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• Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Country, Commitment, Justice For All

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