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Quotations on the topic of ‘great’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” -Tacitus
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“I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.” -Lil’ Kim
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“Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.” -Queen Victoria
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“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” -Doris Lessing
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“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.” -Benito Mussolini
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“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.” -Jean Baudrillard
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“You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can’t be fat and healthy.” -Susan Powter
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“Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.” -Larry Wilcox
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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” -Yousef Munayyer
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” -Richard Dawkins
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“I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.” -Julie Walters
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“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.” -Pat Riley
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“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.” -Louis Kronenberger
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“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” -Horace Mann
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” -John Dryden
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Edward Moore
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“I feel good in my own skin because I’ve accepted the fact that I’m me. That’s what’s so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody’s different.” -Kelly Osbourne
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“The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.” -Andy Rooney
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“How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.” -David Wilkerson
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“The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.” -Bobby Flay
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“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.” -Frederic Bastiat
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“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.” -George Whitefield
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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” -Stephen Leacock
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“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.” -Marya Mannes
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“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.” -William Ellery Channing
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“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.” -Rita Rudner
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“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” -William Osler
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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” -Saul Bellow
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“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” -Sydney Smith
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” -Lewis Carroll
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“The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.” -Lewis Thomas
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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.” -Emily Dickinson
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“The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.” -Ellen G. White
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“Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.” -Victoria Woodhull
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“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.” -Louis Kahn
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“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.” -Robert Fulghum
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“As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.” -Gunter Grass
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“That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” -J. K. Rowling
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“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on…
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“I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” -M. Scott Peck
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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” -Glenn Hughes
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“From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.” -John Hoeven
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“I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.” -Kip Winger
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“I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.” -Adam Schiff
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“I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.” -Ernie Harwell
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“You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I’m older and wiser and I think I’d make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.” -Stevie Nicks
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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“Rugby is great. The players don’t wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.” -Joe Theismann
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“We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.” -Zachary Quinto
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“I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!” -Woody Allen
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“God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.” -Jean Claude Van Damme
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“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.” -E. O. Wilson
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale
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“My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That’d be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.” -Danica Patrick
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“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” -Tom Hanks
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“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.” -Danny Kaye
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“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” -Orson Welles
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“The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.” -Samuel Smiles
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“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” -James Cash Penney
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“I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.” -Bill Maher
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“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.” -Dick Gregory
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“Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.” -Joseph Henry
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” -Salman Rushdie
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“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” -Bjorn Borg
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“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.” -Karl Marx
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“Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” -Epictetus
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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.” -Omar Khayyam
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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.” -James A. Michener
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“The ’20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we’re in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.” -Norman Rockwell
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“It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!” -Anthony de Mello
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“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.” -Malcolm Muggeridge
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“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.” -Saint Augustine
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“There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.” -W. Clement Stone
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“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.” -Andrew Jackson
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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” -Black Elk
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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.” -Jean Rostand
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“In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam’s message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.” -Cat Stevens
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“Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.” -Anna Magnani
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“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.” -William Blake
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“What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you’re feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin – to get stressed out.” -Mehmet Oz
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“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.” -Boris Yeltsin
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“Irreligion – the principal one of the great faiths of the world.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” -Ann Landers
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“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.” -Lope de Vega
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“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.” -Jim Harrison
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“I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” -Zac Efron
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“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” -Madeleine L’Engle
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“I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they’re annoyed. You can tell whether they’re scared.” -Christopher Walken
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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” -George Jean Nathan
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“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.” -Ice Cube
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“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.” -Homer
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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.” -Hypatia
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“Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.” -Albert Pike
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“The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!” -Peter Hook
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“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad’s tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my…
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“There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.” -Rudy Giuliani
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“Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.” -Robin Hayes
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“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.” -Swami Sivananda
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“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.” -Hillary Clinton
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“I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.” -Ron White
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“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.” -Pope John XXIII
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“One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.” -Zack de la Rocha
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“Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.” -Lance Armstrong
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“One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.” -James K. Polk
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“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“I went to my son’s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.” -Hamilton Jordan
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“She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.” -Boy George
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“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies…
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“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.” -Henry Miller
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“Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.” -Chen Shui-bian
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“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.” -Ray Bradbury
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“To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.” -Leonard Bernstein
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“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” -Ansel Adams
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“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.” -Victor Hugo
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“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.” -Bertrand Russell
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“I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.” -Henry Rollins
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“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.” -Salvador Dali
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“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.” -Mick Jagger
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“In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.” -Paulo Coelho
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“I’ve also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.” -Yousuf Karsh
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“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.” -Beau Bridges
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“A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.” -Bo Bennett
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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” -Florence Scovel Shinn
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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.” -Humphry Davy
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“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.” -Pablo Picasso
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” -William James
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“And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better father.” -Angelina Jolie
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“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” -Pablo Neruda
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“As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I’ve got people up here who I’m really tight with, we’ve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I’ve got people in my corner I can trust.” -Jonathan Brown
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“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.” -Emmet Fox
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“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” -Logan P. Smith
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” -George Orwell
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“All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream.” -Patti LaBelle
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“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.” -Charles…
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“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.” -Og Mandino
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“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” -Louise L. Hay
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