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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. -- Claude McKay
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. -- Robert Fortune
The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year. -- Ramez Naam
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. -- Sissy Spacek
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. -- Robert Fortune
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. -- Robert Fortune
The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying. -- Seth Godin
All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness -- Stephen Fry
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. -- H. G. Wells
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination. -- Gloria Steinem
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers. -- Ron Dennis
The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement. -- E. Franklin Frazier
A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar. -- George W. Melville
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together. -- Helen Keller
Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told. -- Annie Leonard
A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity. -- Peter Dicken

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