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(as The Spice Girls play in background)
"What are they doing?"
"Psychological warfare."

(Small Soldiers)

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon

History, n. An account, mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
-- Steven Wright

"Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned."
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

I'll say it again for the logic impaired.
-- Larry Wall

"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
-- Abraham Kapla

"And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress."
-- Basil Fawlty

All sunshine makes the desert.
-- Arab proverb

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
-- Phillips Brooks

'He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.'
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them
-- Paul Murphy

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate."

-- George McGovern

They came. They saw. They did a little shopping.
(Graffiti on the Berlin Wall shortly after it opened)

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
-- David Friedman

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled by great ambitions.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow