977 private quotes tagged great

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” — Jim Carrey

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“Marriage is a great institution.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Don't be humble... you're not that great.” — Golda Meir

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“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield

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“There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.” — Lope de Vega

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“Life should be great rather than long.” — B. R. Ambedkar

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“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” — Jane Austen

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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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“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.” — Andrew Jackson

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.” — Charles Kingsley

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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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“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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“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.” — Noam Chomsky

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