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«If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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«He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man»
«A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.»
«As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.»
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
adulteries, adultery, inch, office, smaller, tiny
«Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.»
«Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make»
«Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Funny,
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
ball, ball game, Ball games, designed, golf ball, golf game, hole, singularly, smaller
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