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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
People
Space
Lost
Live
Universe
Corner
Find
Some
Insignificant
More
Than
Tucked
Forgotten
Which
Galaxies
Galaxy
Far
Planet
Who
Star
Away
Humdrum
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World
Nothing
Insignificant
Point
Point Of View
Depends
View
Most of us aren't defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.
Jocko Willink
Time
Surrender
Battle
Insignificant
Seemingly
Most
Tiny
Decisive
Chips
Us
Really
Should
Who
Away
Defeated
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy Carter
People
Own
Our
Define
Paramount
Insignificant
Tendency
Condemn
Sins
Being
Different
Us
Who
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
God
Knowledge
You
Learning
Grief
Consider
Insignificant
He
Learn
Gloom
Bliss
Came
Person
Might
Ignorant
Who
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
Life
Time
Life Is A
Once
Giant
Insignificant
Seemingly
Small
Step
Taking
Steps
Most
Gradually
Done
While
Stairway
Series
Things
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
Hope
People
Own
Others
Apt
Neighbors
Insignificant
No Hope
Rising
Self
Most
Safe
Self-Esteem
Sneer
Esteem
Lowering
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
Cat Stevens
Allah
Space
Signs
Seen
Become
Earth
Astronauts
Religious
See
Insignificant
Vastness
Because
Go
Very
Size
Many
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
You
Important
Whatever
Insignificant
Seem
Most
May
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess righteousness while flirting with sin.
Sheri L. Dew
You
Integrity
Women
Little Things
Righteousness
Matter
Will
Men
Men And Women
Birthright
Possible
Tell
Some
Insignificant
Seemingly
Something
Small
Sin
Demise
Mess
Sell
Began
Breach
While
Little
Profess
Who
Flirting
Things
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
James E. Faust
Life
Faith
Strong
Fire
Pain
Heroic
Our
Our Lives
Melt
Insignificant
Through
Like
Make
Pass
Intact
Endeavors
Unimportant
Agony
Bright
Away
Lives
My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.
Josh McDowell
Life
Love
God
Great
Joy
Problems
Power
Nothing
Too
Insignificant
About
Small
Had
Concerned
Learned
Because
Deal
His
Nor
Any
Anything
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides
Anger
First
Spring
Outbreak
Insignificant
Unseen
Generally
Causes
Often
Being
Explosion
Wars
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Success
People
See
Insignificant
Seldom
Steps
Most
Achieved
Which
Success Is
Painful
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Minority
Group
Member
Minority Group
See
Insignificant
Both
Marvelous
Exceptional
He
Forced
Himself
Awful
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
Anna Akhmatova
Death
Woman
Heart
Will
Too
Our
Insignificant
Seem
Never
Concern
She
Because
Does
Deny
Grieve
Turn
Who
Chose
Suffered
Her
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl
Simple
Picture
Action
Too
Possible
Significance
Horn
Insignificant
Scenic
Lift
Emphasis
Call
Learned
Passage
How
Transform
Means
Help
Apparently
Incident
Thing
Violin
My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.
Aurora
Me
Age
People
World
Young
Think
Insignificant
About
General
Likes
Does
Very
Young People
Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
Charles Pollock
Me
You
Big
Design
Every
Other
Alive
Insignificant
Pot
Something
Miss
Like
Look
Piece
Industrial
Item
Person
Dish
Sculpture
Chair
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.
Charles Saatchi
Buy
Art
Matters
Collectors
Pretty
Insignificant
More
Scheme
Feel
Like
Exhibitions
Off
Sell
Survives
Then
Show
Things
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
Charlie Brooker
Satire
Sole
Sole Purpose
Wearing
Insignificant
Purpose
Crown
Point
Obscene
Feel
Like
Make
Anyone
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Me
Try
Men
Reading
Think
Our
Say
Okay
Out
Would
Insignificant
About
Percent
Because
Audience
Dudes
Doing
Discourage
Male
Shocked
Site
Which
Toast
Who
Apparently
Actively
Number
Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.
Dick Gregory
Saying
Me
You
CIA
Believe
Every
Think
Other
Month
Out
Tell
Find
Able
Insignificant
About
Records
Always
Hear
Off
Going
Bank
After
Now
Believed
Why
Here
Pull
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.
Fiona Barton
Food
Secret
Our
Everything
Destroy
Embarrassing
Out
Would
Would-Be
Lies
Threaten
Some
Insignificant
Only
Drink
Most
Protective
May
Being
Us
Novelist
Found
It's almost impossible to explain how little the NBA amounted to when I started covering it in 1963. It wasn't fair to call it bush, although everybody did. It was simply small - only nine teams - and insignificant.
Frank Deford
Impossible
Everybody
Nine
Insignificant
Only
Small
Simply
Almost
Fair
Call
Although
How
Covering
Did
Explain
Little
Bush
Teams
NBA
Started
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
Henry Petroski
Matter
Design
Critics
Admirers
Insignificant
Seemingly
Ardent
Well
Without
How
Common
Adamant
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