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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, True

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

Truth, Experience, True

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato

Lie, Stones, Builders

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille

Power, Beautiful, Yourself

Room service? Send up a larger room.
Groucho Marx

Service, Room, Send

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

War, Until, Begin

Be larger than your task.
Orison Swett Marden

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

God, Philosophy, Small

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin

History, Beautiful, Said

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
George Eliot

Happiness, Heart, Woman

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James A. Baldwin

Person, Impossible, Discover

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
Stephen Covey

Happy, Others, Abundance

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
E. O. Wilson

Find, Sense, Another

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
Doug E. Fresh

Change, Create, Level

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
Steve Martin

Women, Men, Art

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
Deepak Chopra

Person, Behavior, Awareness

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
Max Muller

Old, Far, Church

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Gossip, Greed, Apathy

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley

Mind, Small, Child

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Power, Art

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
Doug Coupland

Life, Young, Old

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Friedrich Schiller

Society, Develop, Machine

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.
Herschel Walker

Keep, Matter, Deal

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Gertrude Stein

Forget, Population, Propaganda

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Chinua Achebe

Life, Old, Growing

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush

Time, Yourself, Big

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
Cat Stevens

Life, Famous, Live

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Herman Cain

History, Voting, Rights

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.
Tom Hiddleston

Reason, Playing, Whether

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