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“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”— Walt Whitman
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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”— Napoleon Hill
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“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”— Lee Iacocca
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“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”— Lord Byron
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“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”— William Shakespeare
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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“All great achievements require time.”— Maya Angelou
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“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”— Blaise Pascal
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“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”— Francis Bacon
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“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”— Abdul Kalam
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“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”— Niels Bohr
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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”— Socrates
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“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”— Tom Hanks
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“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Success has always been a great liar.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”— Robert Frost