977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” — Honore de Balzac

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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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“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.” — Emma Goldman

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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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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” — Adam Smith

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“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” — Charles de Montesquieu

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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” — John Ruskin

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“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” — James Freeman Clarke

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“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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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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“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 greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” — Moliere

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“People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.” — Donald Trump

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“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.” — William Barclay

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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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“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.” — Marya Mannes

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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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“What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” — Tacitus

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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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“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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“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.” — John Ruskin

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