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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Man From The USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

"Analogies between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 1990.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

Samael Aun Weor (2008). “Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Gnosis, the Consciousness, and Learning How to Think”, Glorian Publishing

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

"We Spoke to Sally Field About Hello, My Name Is Doris, Women in Hollywood, and the Good Things That Come With Age". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2016.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

Reba McEntire (2015). “Comfort from a Country Quilt: Finding New Inspiration and Strength in Old-Fashioned Values”, p.101, Bantam

A little integrity is better than any career.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press