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• Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. — Honore de Balzac
• President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the… — Bob Beauprez
• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of… — Marcus Aurelius
• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper
• Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
• From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably… — Corey Taylor
• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. — Sam Waterston
• It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. — David Gilmour
• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always… — Andre Breton
• When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine
• I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything… — Fanny Kemble

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