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"petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission." »Robert Burns
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer." »William Shakespeare
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing." »Charles Bukowski
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"petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction." »Theophrastus
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"The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor." »William Feather
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"But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will." »Matthew Arnold
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe." »Robert Service
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"A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance." »Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
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"Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice." »Henry David Thoreau
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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." »Edward Abbey
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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." »Edward Abbey
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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." »Winston Churchill
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"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception." »Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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