"Our words are giants when they do us……" — Wilkie Collins

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• The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin
• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook… — William Carlos Williams
• Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We… — Holmes Rolston III
• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile… — J. B. Priestley
• In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag
• We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than… — John of Salisbury
• Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism… — Terry Pratchett
• The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds… — Kofi Annan
• Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the… — J M Coetzee
• We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. — Bernard of Chartres

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