Pygmies Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
— Honore de Balzac
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
— Winston Churchill
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy…
— N. T. Wright
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
— Herman Melville
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We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music…
— Yusef Lateef
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Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should…
— Richard G. Scott
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
— Lester B. Pearson
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later…
— John Knowles
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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
— Emma Goldman
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At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could…
— Sylvia Plath
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
— Basil O'Connor
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The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with…
— Corneille Ewango
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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
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And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
— Honore De Balzac
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed by the fretful…
— John Wesley Powell
Who Wrote These Pygmies Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Pygmies Quotes as follows: