“ Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance. ”
- Janet Frame- Copy
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“ Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. ”
- M. C. Richards- Copy
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“ We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied which way pleases them. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to someone at some time. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.''. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. ”
- Joseph Bayly- Copy
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“ Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. ”
- Thucydides- Copy
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“ I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy. Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions. ”
- Eric Clapton- Copy
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“ Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ”
- William Thomas- Copy
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“ The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ At first people found a few diamonds in the yellow clay, and they were delighted with their good fortune, even while they supposed that this was to be the full extent of their find. Then, upon digging deeper, they came upon the blue clay, and, to their amazement, they then found as many precious stones in a day as they had previously found in a year, and what had formerly seemed like wealth faded into insignificance beside the new riches… ”
- Emmet Fox- Copy
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