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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves


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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
DIDACUS STELLA I've but only peered over giant shoulders; but at least.
PRESTON ROUSE If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
ISAAC NEWTON If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We challenged ourselves this week to know the Giants better than they knew themselves.
BRENTSON BUCKNER The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK Reading affords you the opportunity to meet giants and achievers in your field of endeavor and stand...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Who would have thought that a small-town kid from Kansas would have a chance to stand on the shoulde...
RON PRINCE To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!
LILLIAN CAULDWELL If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAL ABELSON If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
HAROLD ABELSON Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.
OASIS If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.
HAROLD ABELSON Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more ...
NORMAN GEISLER Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
H ROSS PEROT If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t sta...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If one is to stand on the shoulders of giants, one must first climb up their backs, and the greater ...
BENJAMIN JONES Home of the Giants,
HALEY JOEL OSMENT It became apparent that one reason why the Ice Giants were known as the Ice Giants was because they ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical ...
OMAR BRADLEY Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
OUIDA For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after...
JOSEPH W. ALSOP, JR. Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
SWISS PROVERB Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
ROALD DAHL I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yank...
PAT SAJAK Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
ROBERT BROWNING The giants in the industry are matched up against the giants in the telecom community. It's a fair f...
ADAM THIERER So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of ...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Life's Irony;The world of sex remains a mystery,for a smallish person can have more sexual appetite ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12
We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in di...
LEAH PRICE In 2002 when he came to the Giants, his impact on the club was immeasurable. Without Kenny Lofton, t...
NED COLLETTI Feet on the ground, head in the clouds. That's how giants walk.
ANDREA POMELLI In 2002 when he came to the Giants, his impact on the club was immeasurable. Without Kenny Lofton, t...
NED COLLETTI My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925,
WELLINGTON MARA He has not informed the Giants of that decision.
NED COLLETTI It is going to be a contest of giants,
JOHN SUTHERLAND They Might Be Giants.
DAWN WELLS Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.
WELLINGTON MARA the best wide receiver in Giants history.
AMANI TOOMER Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about pea...
OMAR NELSON BRADLEY Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you...
C. JOYBELL C. Giants bleed like everybody else.
DAN GROAT Your words are fire giants besieging the Asgard of my mind.
BRIAN CLEVINGER Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do ma...
IAN MCEWAN Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
DUTCH PROVERB The Giants have a great organization, great fan base.
JASON PIERRE-PAUL Giants exist now as they have in the past.
SHANA ODEN With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
ERNIE HARWELL We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG U.S. agro-chemical giants will not sell a bushel more of their GM grain as a result of the WTO rulin...
DANIEL MITTLER US agro-chemical giants will not sell a bushel more of their GM grain as a result of the WTO ruling.
DANIEL MITTLER Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Sq...
BARON WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Sq...
WILLIAM BEVERIDGE Being a hero is not only meant for the giants
JOEL LOCKTA The Giants' willingness to compromise on that issue clearly was a psychologically important breakthr...
CARL GOLDBERG When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
WINSTON CHURCHILL giants who change the philosophy of law and have spoken about changing ideas.
BRUCE FEIN These things are always easier to say in retrospect that you shouldn't have done it. We did it becau...
PETER MAGOWAN It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south d...
NEIL GAIMAN Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human be...
ROALD DAHL What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye col...
SIR ISAAC NEWTON [The Republican victory last week probably did not alter the outlook much for either side.] The gian...
ADAM THIERER There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged...
TOM HOLT I'm sure he's not happy with the way he left the Giants.
MICHAEL STRAHAN We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
VICTOR HUGO Life is made up of mysteries, it needs only the giants to expose it.
JOEL LOCKTA One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.
SCOTT KELLY As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.
STEVE TISCH To gain access to your promise land is to first fight the giants of the land
SUNDAY ADELAJA The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
ALVIN DARK I don't really like the Giants at all, and I hate Barry Bonds.
JEFF ELLSWORTH He was broadcasting the Giants from Candlestick on the final day of 1962 when they beat Houston and ...
LON SIMMONS The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB Giants exist as a state of mind. They are defined not as an absolute measurement but as a proportion...
EDWARD O. WILSON It's still the preseason; we need to worry about fixing the Giants more than worrying about a brawl ...
ANTONIO PIERCE Uh-uh, I would rather got hrough the front door and tackle the giants than have to life-saving-suck-...
CHANDA HAHN Be not discourage when others are unable to see the heights of your vision, God will placed you on H...
CARL HENEGAN We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need ...
TED TURNER The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious tu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know Mr. Mara would be so happy for me, and happy that I was representing the Giants. I don't want...
HARRY CARSON Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the ...
G.K. CHESTERTON I'm honored to join the Giants. This uniform number made me think of the great expectations the club...
LEE SEUNG YEOP They're living in close to freezing water. They are these giants living in the sea.
ANDREW DEVOGELAERE When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial ver...
ADAM DAVIDSON Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He's wearing a Giants uniform, and I'm playing for his team, too.
KEVIN FRANDSEN Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like gi...
CHARLES HENRY PARKHURST God does not need our small achievement, He wants us to become giants of success
SUNDAY ADELAJA

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LUCANUS (MARCUS ANNAEUS LUCAN) Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]
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