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A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne / Artist
Body
Soul
Puny
Weakens
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos / Model
Dream
Reality
Life Dreams My Life
Puny
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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart / Philosopher
Work
Ifs
Inward
Work Great Will
Outward
Puny
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
America
Avarice
Disease
Fickle
Following
Hesitation
Diseases
Folk
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I didn't mind going to any length to make people believe that a puny hero had me at his mercy.
Bob Christo /
Hero
Length
Mercy
Believe Mind Me
Puny
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Kurt Vonnegut / Writer
Men
Almighty
Hands
Luck
Please
God Almighty
Puny
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Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines - they aren't 'rules,' because the sanctions for breaching the guidelines are puny.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis /
Dependent
Guidelines
Sanctions
Puny
Wholly
Wto
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
Alexander Herzen / Writer
Science
Casts
Cutting
Daily Life
Mingling
Muddy
Way
Wealth
Fish
Cuts
Daily
Pond
Puny
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Incredibly, a typical town hall official spends 85% of their time satisfying ministers in Whitehall and a puny 15% of the day for local residents. We believe that this relationship is upside down.
Grant Shapps /
Relationship
Ministers
Residents
Satisfying
Typical
Upside Down
Time Believe Day
Time Relationship Believe
Hall
Incredibly
Local
Official
Puny
Town Hall
Upside
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall / Psychologist
Art
Alive
Average
Civilization
Contagious
Despite
Disease
Greater
Protection
Arts
Bodies
Germ
Puny
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom /
Difficulty
Magnitude
Ministry
My Own
Sea
Soul
Stormy
Disturb
Feeble
Priest
Puny
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Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Rick Bass / Writer
Dream
Ambition
Compromise
Dismay
Life Dreams Me
Date
Dreaming
Increasing
Largest
Object
Puny
Surrounds
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Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.
Donella Meadows / Environmental Writer
Bigger
Humankind
Impact
Relative
Sensitive
Scale
Flows
Material
Places
Powers
Puny
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My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Imelda Marcos / Model
Dream
Citizens
Fence
Mankind
Needed
Ordinary
Sea
Years
Major
Leaders
Palace
Picket
Puny
Superpowers
Visit
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
Victoria Pendleton / Cyclist
Acceleration
Better Off
Coaches
National Team
Skinny
Facet
Puny
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Some of the greatest shows in history - 'Seinfeld,' 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and 'House' - had puny starts but the benefit of schedule protection, increasingly scarce in today's DVR world. Cable nets can tolerate small ratings, building hits in progress like 'Breaking Bad,' or marathon their way to a 'Duck Dynasty.'
Kevin Reilly /
Dynasty
Marathon
Protection
Scarce
Tolerate
Benefit
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Cable
Duck
Loves
Hits
Increasingly
Nets
Puny
Ratings
Schedule
Seinfeld
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Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him.
Gilbert Newton Lewis /
Accurate
Olympian
Work Men Man
Compared
Conceal
Deduction
Heights
Observe
Puny
Skilled
Tops
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