Small Amounts Quotes

• Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Atheism, Spirituality

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Peace, Fighting, Foxholes

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Peace

  "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". Stand-up act, edition.cnn.com. 1972.

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• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Reality

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• Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life.

  Bo Sanchez

  Believe, Years, Giving

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Food, Cooking, Delay

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• The end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth century are remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments. Mathematics were at the last gasp, and astronomy nearly so; I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research.

  John Herschel

  Country, Mean, Science

  "Memoir of Francis Baily".

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• You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.

  T. Harv Eker

  Skills, Secret, Habit

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 14, 2012

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• Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Self Harm, Trying

  Anne Sexton, “The Addict”

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• Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether.

  Adam Schiff

  Military, Government, Iraq

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• The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Cancer, Humorous, Long

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Legacy doesn't mean a lot because once you have left, even if you are one of the biggest individual shareholders it only means [a small amount of influence]. But it's something I'm very pleased about.

  Maurice Levy

  Mean, Legacy, Influence

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken.

  Miranda Kerr

  Ocean, Blood, Vegetables

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

  Felicity Kendal

  Wine, Glasses, Delicious

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

  Moses Harvey

  Culture, Genuine, Wit

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• I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Thinking, Careers

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• Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Passion, Desire

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• There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

  Amy Poehler

  Stress, Believe, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  Iain Banks

  Ocean, Nonsense, Devalue

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 11 "Regarding Gravious", Section VI, p. 365), 1996.

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• The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Loss, Gains, Commodity

  1871 The Theory of Political Economy.

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• It will never be the case that people won't eat meat. I think it could conceivably be the case one day that people eat very small amounts of it. That it's a special thing, rather than reach for it because it's cheap or reach for it because it's convenient, that it becomes something festive or something celebratory, once a week, and that could actually be achieved on small farms if we really changed our habits.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, One Day

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Fire, Mind

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• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Islands, Tasks

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