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"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on things and little things    Share

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"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on things and little things    Share

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"It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works."

Burns, David D. on things and little things    Share

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"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on things and little things    Share

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"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on things and little things
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