Small Places Quotes - Page 2

• If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

  Tracy Kidder

  Long, Enough, Happens

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• And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

  Fred Thompson

  Average, Important, Littles

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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Country, Distance, Men

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• The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

  Louise Brown

  Meaningful, People, Stories

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• There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Cities, People, Political

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

  Ryan Giggs

  Dad, Player, People

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice Guy Finishes First" By Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Play, Broken

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