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Athlete | November 26, 1878 - June 21, 1932
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I'm not a princess,
This ain't a fairytale.
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet,
Lead her up the stairwell.
This ain't Hollywood,
This is a small town.
I was a dreamer before
You went and let me down.
Now it's too late for you and your white horse
To come around.
Taylor Swift
It's you who invokes the rain in the town. But the rain doesn't soak my soul. My soul's for you... ...and deep down there... ...celebrations all around! When I behold you... ...it seems your body's made up of the soft rose petals! Your lips... ...are they the same artist as they had once been?
Soumitra Chatterjee
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The first night, a rock, big as two fists.
The second, a rock big as three.
But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed.
(Though oaken as man could be.)
The third night, a silvery ring of glass.
Patience arched to endure,
But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood
Was staining her gaze so pure.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang (stand-in by Vladimir Chaloupka)
Wang Chong
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Small is beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert's songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele, is remarkably small.
Adele
The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.
Dada J. P. Vaswani
I consider that goodness of being and doing constitute the rock-bottom of one’s life. By goodness I mean the capacity to feel with others and to live and feel as others do, and be in a position to act so that no one is hurt by the act. (What Life Has Taught Me)
Sivananda Saraswati
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
William Shakespeare
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Brannon (doubled by Jimmy N. Roberts)
Wang Chong
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[W]hatever you are is never enough; you must find a way to accept something, however small, from the other to make you whole and to save you from the mortal sin of righteousness and extremism. (p. 154)
Chinua Achebe
The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.
Peter F. Drucker
The bigger that your career gets, the smaller your life gets.
Adele
If you are the big tree
We are the small axe
Sharpened to cut you down
Ready to cut you down
Bob Marley
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When SARS occurred 17 years ago, JD was a very small company and we personally experienced then just how devastating an epidemic situation can be to both businesses and the people's lives. That's why today, JD will do everything we can within our power to serve our customers and as well as society.
Liu E
César Chávez (pronounced "CHA-vez") died long after the height of the farmworker cause, like the entire Chicano movement, had been forced to spend much energy defending its small gains of the 1960s.
César Chávez