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Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. -- David Crystal
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant. -- John Cameron
War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through. -- Malcolm Lowry
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. -- Carter G. Woodson
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them. -- Daniel Kahneman
The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives. -- Clayton Christensen
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible. -- Vaclav Klaus
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident. -- Ann Veneman
If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things. -- Brian Dennehy
The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin. -- Lavrenti Lopes
My contribution to film has always been negligible. -- Alec Guinness
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual. -- Carl Jung
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. -- Mark Lawson
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible. -- T. S. Eliot
So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free. -- Veronica Roth
...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible. -- Mark Haddon
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community. -- Dale Jamieson
The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects. -- G. H. Hardy
Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. -- Sri Chinmoy
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared to that, the victims of private crimes are almost negligible. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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