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• I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.

  Kim Harrison

  Cat, Eye, Fire

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• We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

  Barack Obama

  What Matters, People, Earth

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.

  Candy Darling

  Bigs, Big Picture

  Candy Darling (2015). “Candy Darling: Memoirs of an Andy Warhol Superstar”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and the fact that I can include you in them as well. Cinema is only a small part of a much greater phenomenon. We transcend the barriers of culture. DVDs' image quality and longevity provide us with new prospects. They are a powerful medium. I think they were invented especially for me.

  Peter Greenaway

  Powerful, Moving, Technology

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• But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Crazy, Believe, Wonder

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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• Books make up no small part of human happiness.

  Frederick The Great

  Happiness, Book, Humans

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• Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Archer, Thinking, People

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.101, Bibliolis Books

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• I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Humanity

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• If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jealous, Heart, Want

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• What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Moving, Destiny, Wonderful

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• No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

  Wendell Berry

  Acceptance, Humanity, World

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.118, Counterpoint

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Heart, Men, Mind

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

  Sangharakshita

  Ideas, Empires, Relation

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• Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Race, Long, Gold

  William Stanley Jevons (1931). “The Theory of Political Economy”

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• I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

  Michael Biehn

  Play, People, Care

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

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  Alec Guinness

  Play, Lucky, Roles

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

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• Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

  Thomas Kinkade

  God's Plan, Painting, Used

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• The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

  Al Franken

  Practice, Becoming, Mortgage

  Sen. Franken Speaks on Senate Floor in Support of Richard Cordray to Head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, www.gpo.gov. December 7, 2011.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Morning, Mean

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• The new 'Mad Max' movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I have a small part in 'Mad Max.' I play the old geezer who remembers what steak tasted like.

  David Letterman

  Play, Mad, Max

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• You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?

  Cynthia Heimel

  Love, Everyday, Paper

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• The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Beach, Hero

  "FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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