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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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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
— Anatole France
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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”
— Gore Vidal
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”
— Francis Bacon
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“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
— Thomas Fuller
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“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“No man was ever great by imitation.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
— Charles Darwin
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“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
— Victor Hugo
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“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”
— Dr. Seuss
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“Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
— George Eliot
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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
— Albert Einstein
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“To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.”
— Samuel Johnson
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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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