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Henry Louis Gates on great
Author: Henry Louis Gates“Let’s face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the…
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Anne Lamott on great
Author: Anne Lamott“If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil…
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Kate Clinton on great
Author: Kate Clinton“I try something new every night. It’s an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It’s a great workshop for me.” -Kate Clinton
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Andy Warhol on great
Author: Andy Warhol“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.” -Andy Warhol
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Woodrow Wilson on great
Author: Woodrow Wilson“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.” -Woodrow Wilson
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Calvin Coolidge on great
Author: Calvin Coolidge“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.” -Calvin Coolidge
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Jane Austen on great
Author: Jane Austen“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.” -Jane Austen
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Willa Cather on great
Author: Willa Cather“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.” -Willa Cather
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John Ruskin on great
Author: John Ruskin“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.” -John Ruskin
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Otto von Bismarck on great
Author: Otto von Bismarck“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” -Otto von Bismarck
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Renata Adler on great
Author: Renata Adler“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.” -Renata Adler
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Demetri Martin on great
Author: Demetri Martin“The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.” -Demetri Martin
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Noah Webster on great
Author: Noah Webster“The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.” -Noah Webster
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on great
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein“Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Rush Limbaugh on great
Author: Rush Limbaugh“Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.” -Rush Limbaugh
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John Burroughs on great
Author: John Burroughs“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” -John Burroughs
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Kristen Wiig on great
Author: Kristen Wiig“I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with me?’” -Kristen Wiig
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Frida Kahlo on great
Author: Frida Kahlo“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” -Frida Kahlo
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John Locke on great
Author: John Locke“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.” -John Locke
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Thomas Keller on great
Author: Thomas Keller“I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.” -Thomas Keller
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Jeff Bezos on great
Author: Jeff Bezos“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” -Jeff Bezos
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Julia Roberts on great
Author: Julia Roberts“I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.” -Julia Roberts
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Madeleine Albright on great
Author: Madeleine Albright“I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.” -Madeleine Albright
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Elisha Cuthbert on great
Author: Elisha Cuthbert“When I was 20, I thought I was 30 – but I was so far from it. When you’re young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.” -Elisha Cuthbert
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Francis Bacon on great
Author: Francis Bacon“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” -Francis Bacon