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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "and nothing big ever came from being small"mean...?

Does "and nothing big ever came from being small" mean "without being small first, any big thing will never come to us"?

Context:

America demands and deserves big things from us—and nothing big ever came from being small. Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing the end of his own life. He said: “It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division.”29
Fellow citizens, we must not waste the precious gift of this time. For all of us are on that same journey of our lives, and our journey, too, will come to an end. But the journey of our America must go on.
  

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No, it means the opposite, that if you are small (I would guess meant here in the sense of petty) then nothing big will ever come.

— GPY

  • No, it means the opposite, that if you are small (I would guess meant here in the sense of petty) then nothing big will ever come.
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No, it means the opposite, that if you are small (I would guess meant here in the sense of petty) then nothing big will ever come.
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