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“Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time”
Margot Fonteyn quotes (English Dancer and outstanding ballerina of the English stage. 1919-1991)
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“When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.”
Hannah Arendt quotes (German born American Philosopher and Political scientist. 1906-1975)

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“Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which "the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race" are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the”
Hannah Arendt quotes (German born American Philosopher and Political scientist. 1906-1975)

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“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”
Angela Carter quotes (English Writer and Novelist(Magic Toyshop). Dies of cancer at 5. 1940-1992)

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“For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn quotes
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“ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.”
William Osler quotes (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
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“Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind”
Robertson Davies quotes (Canadian Journalist and Author. 1913-1995)
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minor synonyms: child, children, kidding, kids, modest, nestling, small, small-scale, venial, youngster, youngsters.

minor antonyms: major.

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