977 private quotes tagged great

“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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“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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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.” — Black Elk

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“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.” — Ice Cube

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“Success is a great deodorant.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.” — Jean Rostand

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“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.” — Norman Cousins

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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.” — Omar Khayyam

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“Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.” — Joseph Henry

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“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.” — Boris Yeltsin

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“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.” — Saint Augustine

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