Given the high mortality rates during most of the history of around the world voyages, sailors were indeed angels in the making, about to die. Their tininess and the smallness of their ship make a circumnavigation of the comparatively enormous globe seem impossible, and yet it happened-- over and over, hundreds of thousands of times, and even more circumnavigations are taking place right now as I speak on every level of the Earth, both beneath the sea,
I'm raring to go. The critique about the smallness of the story suddenly becomes the reality of an immense story. So what's the fear now?
And just being on those 1,000-foot spaces, moving up little crystals and crack systems, and feeling this sense of your smallness , your tininess in this immense environment, was incredibly enlivening for me. And it was also a bit of an addiction, addicted to the adrenalized experience, addicted
And tell us about-- Amy Cuddy is probably somebody lots of people in the room will know. it totally calms you and takes away any feelings of smallness and nerves that you might have.
And of course, creating certain structure, the ceiling is open. And of course, the smallness of the table. As we move on, we see a ceiling transformation.
So at least 5,000 children perished, which is a very small number compared to the indiscriminate killing of other groups. But in my mind, this is even-- the smallness of the number is what makes it so scary because it's so deliberative. Doctors were going through these case files in excessive detail and passing them on and it was a scientific process.
So it's really good. It's really good. Even the smallness of it, as grandiose as the environment is, as grandiose as the world is, the movie is very small. Really, the amount of time, we're talking about two days out of these people's lives.
his way of arguing against a position is always first you show there's no argument for it. This something that takes you out of yourself and you feel your own smallness in relation to the grandeur and you almost can get swallowed up in it and it's grand,
climate entropy accident heartbreak we're we're really fools to think that we're in in control of the universe any more than kids are the difference is that children um they allow the the humility of their smallness uh to rule the day and we we kind of get um we kind of get full of ourselves and think that we have greater control than maybe we
remember have you seen glares around you can look at somebody's face and you can say person is closed pupils are small you can read that so what we help people do is identify the hardness of the and the smallness of the pupil hardness of the eyes and switch it to the Gaze this is the kind of face you want to look at while you're talking where
little close more closely in ozone and particulate matter particulates come from diesel fuel and they're very small particles and they can get actually get into your lungs and your bloodstream much easier because of the smallness of the particle California is is by far the worst in the
In 1953, inspired by his opposition to anti-Semitism, he writes "The Sneetches." And then, the same year as Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case that ostensibly made school segregation illegal in the US, "Horton Hears a Who" presents the Whos' smallness as an arbitrary mark of difference for which they are unfairly penalized.
being. But further away from the leading cities that independence seemed to matter less. In places such as Umred the British had been a faint presence. The Indians, once they took over, improved little. The landlords, the humiliations, the smallness of life, it all lived on. What was coming to India now was a sense of awakening much as it had in 1947. But this time if felt less theoretical. This time if felt like another kind of independence; an