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• The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
• We own this land. I don't spend any time on this land.
  This is a tiny little piece of my business interests....
• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world.
  With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist....
• Ross: Look, honey, I have tried to make nice, it doesn't work.
  Rachel: Okay, look, Ross, I realise that my Father is difficult, but that's why you have got to be the bigger man here....
• It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
• To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower, To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
  -- William Blake...