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James Russell Lowell
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| "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do." | |
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Walter Gagehot
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| "Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business
of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few,
repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are
easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of
Tao." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it
was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their
people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership." | |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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| "Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the
sword." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "Every calling is great when greatly pursued." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard
himself as greater than he is." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." | |
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C. D. Jackson
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| "Great ideas need landing gears as well as wings." | |
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Adolph Augustus Berle, Jr.
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| "Great liars are also great magicians." | |
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Adolf Hitler
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| "Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be
lighted." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any
material force; that thoughts rule the world." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "Great men never make bad use of their superiority; they see it, and
feel it, and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know
their own deficiencies." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the
fraternity of strangers." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do
their bounds divide." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Great works are performed, not by strength, but by
perseverance." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a
very low standard of it in mind." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a
subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will
not bear serious examination is false wit." | |
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Aristotle
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| "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for
truth, and he will find both." | |
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Horace Mann
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| "If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to
play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All
that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or
ill." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every
arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in
small matters, as they are." | |
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Gamaliel Bradford
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| "It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and
historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored
as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious
reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken
more pains than other men." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things
are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment; in
these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even
richer." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Little strokes fell great oaks." | |
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Proverb
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| "Little strokes, Fell great oaks." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Many small make a great." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Men of principles are always bold, but those who are bold are not
always men of principle." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes
or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must
be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." | |
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Epictetus
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| "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or
to get all the credit for doing it." | |
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Andrew Carnegie
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| "Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How
very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!" | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence
and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness
on Earth." | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and
balanced ones never." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Responsibility is the price of greatness." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have it
pinned on them" | |
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George Ade
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| "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public
relations officers." | |
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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| "The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used
to acquire it." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "The great end of life is not knowledge but action." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "The greatest men are the simplest." | |
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Unknown
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| "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do." | |
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Walter Bagehot
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| "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we
pretend to be." | |
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Socrates
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| "The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us.
So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with
the radiations of their personalities." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in
their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a
brave, determined spirit." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze.
It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his
compassion." | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "The world knows nothing of its greatest men." | |
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Sir Henry Taylor
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| "The world?s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its
great scholars great men." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk
on higher ground in that lifetime." | |
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Maxwell Anderson
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| "There are three things which make a nation great and prosperous ? a
fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and
commodities." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "They [the looters] are not the enemy, they are our citizens." | |
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Martinez
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| "This nation, this generation, in this hour has man"s first chance to
build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man"s life matches the
marvels of man"s labor." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to
die." | |
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Marquis de Vauvenargues
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| "When Newton saw an apple fall, he found ... A mode of proving that
the earth turnd round In a most natural whirl, called gravitation; And
thus is the sole mortal who could grapple Since Adam, with a fall or with
an apple." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Where there is great love, there are always miracles." | |
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Willa Sibert Cather
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| "You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the
spoil." | |
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Aesop
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