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A small number of choice books are sufficient.
A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.
I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.
Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid.
I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.
One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.
I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.
A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.
We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.
In some states, a very small number of states, it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their gender identity, transgender identification. In the vast majority, it is perfectly legal.
There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.
With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.
She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.