"It is the vice of a vulgar mind…" — E. M. Forster

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• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges… — Woodrow Wilson
• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles… — E. M. Forster
• The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness. — Eric Sevareid
• It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them. — Charles Spurgeon
• We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery… — Jim Harrison
• God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size… — Billy Graham
• This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. — Michael Heizer
• The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a… — Rebecca Solnit
• Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson… — Miguel de Cervantes
• Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma,… — Andrew Hill
• I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if… — Vandana Shiva

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