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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Great, Greatness, Himself

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
Plato

Great, Done, Deal

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

May, Enjoy, Big

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton

Human, Temptation, Biggest

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush

Mother, Since, President

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson Mandela

Happiness, Fear, Help

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
Bill Gates

Life, Money, Mean

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra

Wonderful, Kids, House

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Time, Best, Care

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato

Power, Same, Wish

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey

Friendship, True, Another

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
Henry Ford

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill

Together, Big, Found

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
Sigmund Freud

Good, Experience, Human

I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
Charlie Sheen

Try, Energy, Around

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust

Time, Dream, Dangerous

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Education, Work, Living

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato

Speed, Suffer, Haste

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest Hemingway

Down, Alcohol, Idea

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Give, Succeed, Skill

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
Aldous Huxley

Life, End, Human

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama

God, Gay, Friends

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve Jobs

Lost, Dark, Dead

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller

Great, Men, Between

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma Bombeck

Wisdom, Mother, White

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

Before, Play, Wish

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden

Experience, Rather, Talent

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
Ismail Haniyeh

Time, Truth, True

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Him, Goes, Shadow

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