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Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

Criss Jami , em Healology
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And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

Frank Cottrell Boyce , em The Unforgotten Coat
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...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Chris Crutcher , em Whale Talk
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Samuel Johnson , em The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
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A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

Patrick Rothfuss , em The Name of the Wind
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