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Whether he would admit it or not, the arena was Khan’s domain, and when he entered it, all else drifted into insignificance
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So he allowed the final well of emotions to quietly fill him, briefly, before they faded into insignificance
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The hall to his left took on added insignificance, as she ran up and up, disappearing behind some potted plants, mutated penicillin or something by the look of it
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In the knowledge of this, the sufferings of the present time fade into insignificance
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him seemed to pale into insignificance as his thousand yard stare
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I have ventured to send you these little gifts -- not as if they deserved even a glance from you -- but so that you may have a reminder of my obscure insignificance, to stop my being forgotten by you on account of our wide separation, and the long time that has passed since we were together
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Her transitory moment of insignificance is over now but I will need to kill
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designed to effect a feeling of smallness and insignificance down there in
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By reducing Icarus to a pair of vainly kicking legs, he suggests the insignificance of individuals in the ‘great scheme’
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If not, why should the feeling of contentment insulate man from being ambitious? After all, isn’t the sense of contentment all about the realization of materialistic insignificance? Why, it signifies the irrelevance of the self itself? On the contrary, won’t ambition exemplify man’s craving for his social relevance through every conceivable means? Given the collective irrelevance of man in the universality of being, what is the individual significance existentialism advocates?
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For once, Suresh felt that his crimes, though abominable, paled into insignificance compared to the panchayat’s collective cruelty
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The whippings Natala had received in the Shemite slave-markets paled to insignificance before this
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Of all the things that John Ritchie had achieved in thirty years in the employ of MI5 the fact that he had failed Sam made everything else pale into insignificance
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There was something about being with Rosa that paled everything else into insignificance
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seems to have faded into historical insignificance
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But one day Tempura discovered something that would make his previous discoveries pale to insignificance
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If you're stark raving sane you are liable to realise that you are no better than the bloke next to you, that happiness is in unblazoned, unpraised insignificance
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changing universe, contemplated my insignificance against the drama
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Elizabeth waved a hand as if to indicate the insignificance of her assistance
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but no Crew Member escaped the awesome feeling of insignificance when the
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It is to be appreciated that neither his insignificance as an orphan affected his self-worth nor his poverty dented his self-esteem
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In a world where everyone's significance is becoming indexed to fame, wealth and power, then most are destined to insignificance and the rest to sorrow
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To those who perceive the nature and transcendency of mental force, all physical power sinks into insignificance
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The excitement of any other night in the year paled to insignificance before this
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“Come on matey” said Spock, knowing from his own past experience, whatever outside pain Stu had endured over the last few days, paled into insignificance compared to what he now felt inside
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My insignificance compared to the eternal river always seemed to calm me
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In my case, that profound insignificance was the delivery of a single piece of mail
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I’m guessing that once a patient sees the state that she’s in, their own problems fade into insignificance
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My opinion is that it is small and insignificance in both size and splendor
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when compared to Heaven, and this body is an insignificance seed, an acorn compared to
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them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment in
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In the massive silence he felt his own heart beating; the space pressed down, screaming his own insignificance at him
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Soon, however, all of these lesser questions faded to insignificance as the one big dilemma of the situation assertively elbowed its way to the front of his mind: should he try to get off the train and give chase, or get to the next town to meet the two policemen as instructed? As the train slid past a stand of rhododendron, the glossy foliage moulded itself into a fleshy face that glared at Loofah with its angry little eyes
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given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of
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opinion is that it is small and insignificance in both size and splendor when compared to
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My opinion is that it is small and insignificance in both size and splendor when compared to Heaven, and this body is an insignificance seed, an acorn compared to a large oak tree (1 Corinthians 15:35-39)
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If the punishment of Hell awaited the souls that were in all those who drown in the flood, the punishment of drowning that was given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment for the souls in Hell, yet absolutely nothing is said to them about eternal punishment after death
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I gladly acknowledge my own insignificance by the side of either of them, yet they are both wrong in their application of that word, the fact of which the Greek itself will testify
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fascinating ones I had already heard, almost pale into insignificance
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If the punishment of Hell awaited all those who drown in the flood, the punishment given to them utterly pales into insignificance when it compared to an eternal life of torment in Hell, yet absolutely nothing is said about it
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Pyotr Petrovitch, who had made his way up from insignificance, was morbidly given to self-admiration, had the highest opinion of his intelligence and capacities, and sometimes even gloated in solitude over his image in the glass
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He was giving orders for a toothpick-case for himself, and till its size, shape, and ornaments were determined, all of which, after examining and debating for a quarter of an hour over every toothpick-case in the shop, were finally arranged by his own inventive fancy, he had no leisure to bestow any other attention on the two ladies, than what was comprised in three or four very broad stares; a kind of notice which served to imprint on Elinor the remembrance of a person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance, though adorned in the first style of fashion
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inward congratulation, for the opportune relief and insignificance it conferred on
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This image had become ubiquitous on T-shirts as well as posters and I always felt mildly irritated by it, unsure of how to take it, whether it was meant to be comical or grave, to indicate the largeness of our lives or the insignificance
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It was a small “housewife,” made of flannel, containing the whole She had a Christmas present for Ashley, but it paled in insignificance beside the glory precious pack of needles Rhett had brought her from Nassau, three of her linen handkerchiefs, obtained from the same source, two spools of thread and a small pair of scissors
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Pyotr Petrovitch, who had made his way up from insignificance, was morbidly given to self‐admiration, had the highest opinion of his intelligence and capacities, and sometimes even gloated in solitude over his image in the glass
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Maybe the vastness of Manhattan is just a kind of accounting fiction you use to justify your own insignificance, your own helplessness, the fact that when you call, no one answers
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We’ve grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance
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A utility’s need for outside equity financing on a continuing basis tends to be so huge as to dwarf into insignificance the amount of cash that could be retained by paying stock dividends instead of periodically increasing the cash dividend
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Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men, and yet at the same time was conscious of his strength as a part of that enormous whole
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Looking into Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrew thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain
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‘I had no chance to talk with you, Prince, during the animated conversation in which that venerable gentleman involved me,’ he said with a mildly contemptuous smile, as if intimating by that smile that he and Prince Andrew understood the insignificance of the people with whom he had just been talking
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It seemed that in this company the insignificance of those people was so definitely accepted that the only possible attitude toward them was one of good humored ridicule
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The them we find; and each separate cause or whole series of causes appears to us equally valid in itself and equally false by its insignificance compared to the magnitude of the events, and by its impotence- apart from the cooperation of all the other coincident causes- to occasion the event
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When he sat with his elbows on the dusty writing table in the deathlike stillness of the study, calm and significant memories of the last few days rose one after another in his imagination, particularly of the battle of Borodino and of that vague sense of his own insignificance and insincerity compared with the truth, simplicity, and strength of the class of men he mentally classed as they
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The ignorance of his colleagues, the weakness and insignificance of his opponents, the frankness of his falsehoods, and the dazzling and self-confident limitations of this man raise him to the head of the army
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One after another they hasten to display their insignificance before him
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Alexander I- the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland- now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples- at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power- Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:
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He was proud of her intelligence and goodness, recognized his own insignificance beside her in the spiritual world, and rejoiced all the more that she with such a soul not only belonged to him but was part of himself
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As can be seen, the effect has faded into insignificance
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In fact, she said, she was “unable to take refuge in her own insignificance
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He had learned his part, all his parts, for he took every trifling one that could be united with the Butler, and began to be impatient to be acting; and every day thus unemployed was tending to increase his sense of the insignificance of all his parts together, and make him more ready to regret that some other play had not been chosen
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He had learned his part—all his parts, for he took every trifling one that could be united with the Butler, and began to be impatient to be acting; and every day thus unemployed was tending to increase his sense of the insignificance of all his parts together, and make him more ready to regret that some other play had not been chosen
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And, whatever view of the accident be taken, whether the moralist shall use it to point the text of a solemn or denunciatory warning, or whether the materialist, swinging to the other extreme, scouts any other theory than that of the "fortuitous concurrence of atoms," there is scarcely a thinking mortal who has heard of what happened who has not been deeply stirred, in the sense of a personal bereavement, to a profound humility and the conviction of his own insignificance in the greater universal scheme
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She was indeed the proud daughter of a thousand jeddaks, every inch of her dear, precious little body; so small, so frail beside the towering warriors around her, but in her majesty dwarfing them into insignificance; she was the mightiest figure among them and I verily believe that they felt it
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It must be admitted that the attic was rather delighted in, and that its coldness and bareness quite sank into insignificance when Melchisedec was remembered, and one heard about the sparrows and things one could see if one climbed on the table and stuck one's head and shoulders out of the skylight
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'■ The fanaticism, the romanticism of insignificance and impotence ! " people will pronounce, " the triumph of common-placeness and mediocrity ! " Yes, I admit that it is in a way the triumph of commonplaceness and mediocrity, but surelj' not of impotence
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" The " idea" comforted mo in disgrace and insignificance
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With the other, clear part of her reason, she must have seen through the insignificance of her ' hero,' for who will not agree now that that imhappy man, noble-hearted in his own way as he was, was at the same time an absolutely insignificant person ? This very haughtiness and OS it were antagonism towards us all, this constant suspiciousness that we were thinking difTercntly of him, made one surmise that in the secret recesses of her heart a very different judgment of her unhappy friend had perhaps been formed
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He bowed to his guest in dignified silence, motioned him to a low chair by the sofa, and, leaning on his son's arm he began lowering himself on to the sofa opposite, groaning painfully, so that Mitya, seeing his painful exertions, immediately felt remorseful and sensitively conscious of his insignificance in the presence of the dignified person he had ventured to disturb
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He was obliged to confess at last, that all his anxiety, his irritation, his state of agitation generally, must undoubtedly be connected with, and absolutely attributed to, the appearance of the wretched-looking creature with the crape hatband, in spite of his insignificance
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I knew, of course, that they must despise me now for my lack of success in the service, and for my having let myself sink so low, going about badly dressed and so on—which seemed to them a sign of my incapacity and insignificance
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In spite of the beautiful descriptions, full of refined humour, of a fashionable watering-place and of the activity of the doctors in this place, we have here the same male, Paul, who is just as base and heartless as the husband in Une Vie, and the same deceived, ruined, yielding, weak, lonely, always lonely, dear woman, and the same indifferent triumph of insignificance and baseness as in Bel-Ami
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It is to be hoped that the work I have tried to perform concerning art will be performed also for science—that the falseness of the theory of science for science's sake will be demonstrated; that the necessity of acknowledging Christian teaching in its true meaning will be clearly shown, that on the basis of that teaching a reappraisement will be made of the knowledge we possess, and of which we are so proud; that the secondariness and insignificance of experimental science, and the primacy and importance of religious, moral, and social knowledge will be established; and that such knowledge will not, as now, be left to the guidance of the upper classes only, but will form a chief interest of all free, truth-loving men, such as those who, not in agreement with the upper classes, but in their despite, have always forwarded the real science of life
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" One looks in vain here as in the Roman plays for a suggestion that poor people sometimes suffer wrongfully from hunger and want, that they occasionally have just grievances, and that their efforts to present them, so far from being ludicrous, are the most serious parts of history, beside which the struttings of kings and courtiers sink into insignificance
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Instead of considering such to be useful and of importance, we must come to acknowledge it to be harmful and trifling; instead of considering ourselves educated, we must come to see our ignorance; instead of imagining ourselves to be kind and moral, we must acknowledge that we are immoral and cruel; instead of seeing our importance, we must see our own insignificance
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“I had no chance to talk with you, Prince, during the animated conversation in which that venerable gentleman involved me,” he said with a mildly contemptuous smile, as if intimating by that smile that he and Prince Andrew understood the insignificance of the people with whom he had just been talking
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The deeper we delve in search of these causes the more of them we find; and each separate cause or whole series of causes appears to us equally valid in itself and equally false by its insignificance compared to the magnitude of the events, and by its impotence—apart from the cooperation of all the other coincident causes—to occasion the event
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When he sat with his elbows on the dusty writing table in the deathlike stillness of the study, calm and significant memories of the last few days rose one after another in his imagination, particularly of the battle of Borodinó and of that vague sense of his own insignificance and insincerity compared with the truth, simplicity, and strength of the class of men he mentally classed as they
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Alexander I—the pacifier of Europe, the man who from his early years had striven only for his people’s welfare, the originator of the liberal innovations in his fatherland—now that he seemed to possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples—at the time when Napoleon in exile was drawing up childish and mendacious plans of how he would have made mankind happy had he retained power—Alexander I, having fulfilled his mission and feeling the hand of God upon him, suddenly recognizes the insignificance of that supposed power, turns away from it, and gives it into the hands of contemptible men whom he despises, saying only:
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The pretended blockade of almost every port upon the Baltic; the blockade of the eastern and southern coasts of the North Sea, unaccompanied by any naval force; the nominal investment of the ports on the south of the British channel, and on the European coast of the Mediterranean sea; the occlusion of the Black Sea, by the blockade of the Dardanelles and Smyrna, and in fine the blockade of all the places from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Arctic Ocean, are acts which, notwithstanding their unexampled enormity in themselves, sink into perfect insignificance, when we consider the base attempts meditated by the orders of November, 1807, and the consequent statutes of Parliament, to reduce this country again to a state of colonial slavery! Sir, at the very thought of these infamous orders and acts of the British Government, I feel emotions of indignation and contempt, to repress which would be dishonorable
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In this point of view, all the other questions which have been agitated in the course of this debate dwindle into utter insignificance
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But neither his decalogue nor his delicacy prevented him from sketching airily the insignificance of wedding symbols in an aristocratic connection when the heart was involved
