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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility."

Thomas S. Monson
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes
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"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."

Tom Hopkins
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"Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

Montesquieu
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"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

Henry Ward Beecher
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

William Arthur Ward
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."

Plato
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Napoleon Hill
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"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

Nelson Mandela
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"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

William James
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"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things."

Joe Paterno
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

Plato
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one."

Elbert Hubbard
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

Charles R. Swindoll
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

Abraham Lincoln
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"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

Vince Lombardi
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

Robert Hughes
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"What matters is that you do great work, and you will definitely be remembered for that for years to come."

Armaan Malik
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"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."

William Ellery Channing
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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

Henry David Thoreau
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"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters."

Garry Kasparov
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"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

Jane Austen
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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

Frederic Bastiat
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."

John Dryden
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"

Sigmund Freud
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."

Leo Tolstoy
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Benjamin Disraeli
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"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."

B. R. Ambedkar
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

Oprah Winfrey
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"The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation."

Vernon Howard
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"People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others."

Justine Musk
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"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

Channing Pollock
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"That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring."

Jeff Foxworthy
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"By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations."

Kate Winslet
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

Aesop
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"Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer."

Nick Rahall
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"I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally."

Tamron Hall
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"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

Vince Lombardi
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"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."

David Hume
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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."

Mencius
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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. -Charles de Saint"

Évremond
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"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

Kobe Bryant
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"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality."

Iris Murdoch
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"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."

Leo Burnett
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"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."

Irving Babbitt
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"Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career."

Nas
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"Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear."

Denny Laine
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"You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things."

Asa Hutchinson
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"I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight."

Michael Keaton
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"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."

Edmund Spenser
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"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."

Steve Jobs
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"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people."

Huey Newton
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz
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"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."

Emmanuel Teney
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"It has been great journey from where I have started to where I am today. I am really blessed with God's grace."

Dhanush
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

Saul Bellow
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Anatole France
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"One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good."

Gretchen Rubin
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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."

John Ruskin
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"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

Norman Vincent Peale
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"I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older."

Mekhi Phifer
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

William James
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"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

Colin Powell
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"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."

Elsa Schiaparelli
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"The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young."

Maeve Binchy
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"To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life."

Nancy Reagan
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"First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great."

Alyssa Milano
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"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest."

Charles Dickens
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Helen Keller
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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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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

John Ruskin
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"Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."

Maya Angelou
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"A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward."

Harvey Mackay
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

Louis D. Brandeis
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"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

Jacqueline Bisset
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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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"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

Jacqueline Bisset
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"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."

Mitch Hedberg
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"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

Zig Ziglar
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"I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you."

JoJo
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."

Martha Graham
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"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

Zendaya
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"I just love hanging out with good company on a great, fun golf course."

Rich Eisen
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"It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked."

Jonah Hill
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"Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself."

Iris Apfel
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"Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory."

Robert Greene
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"When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome."

Jennifer Hyman
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"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought."

Arthur Bryant
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"I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great."

Russell Wilson
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"Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events."

John Drinkwater
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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."

William Glasser
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"Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love."

David Bailey
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"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."

Jose Rizal
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"I love Australia; it was a really, really nice experience for me. It's such a beautiful place. The people are beautiful - like, really beautiful - and they are beautiful in terms of their personalities. It's a great place to be. It's like you are in a little bit of a dream world."

Shawn Mendes
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"We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food."

Marcus Samuelsson
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"To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning."

Frances Arnold
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"Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface."

Jens Martin Skibsted
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"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

Tom Hanks
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"I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man."

Jake Owen
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"My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New Jersey, where they had friends and family, seeking a better life, and then moved to Boston after I was born."

Diane Guerrero
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"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

Napoleon Hill
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"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

Phillips Brooks
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

Winston Churchill
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"Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck."

Stefano Gabbana
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"Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling."

Naveen Jain
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"I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot."

Sam Elliott
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."

Lee Iacocca
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

George Eliot
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"Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis."

Rami Malek
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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."

Jeff Bezos
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Ernest Hemingway
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"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become."

Brooke Foss Westcott
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"The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things."

Condoleezza Rice
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"Great times, beautiful place, Boulder. In fact, that's where I proposed to Jaye when I took her back there. In the parking lot of Baseline Liquors!"

Joe Maddon
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"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."

Elbert Hubbard
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Jack Kerouac
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"Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes."

Virgil Abloh
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"It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later."

George Foreman
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"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."

Maya Angelou
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"I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people."

Nicole Scherzinger
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"Time flies. Especially when you have a great time, when you're winning and the team is playing great."

Bojan Bogdanovic
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"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Thomas Carlyle
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"The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste."

Valentino Rossi
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"I love getting anything homemade - anything that's from the heart. If you can make or craft your own something, that always goes above and beyond, like, a candle - which is great, but if it's homemade, that's so much better for me."

David Burtka
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"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women."

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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"Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success."

Dwayne Johnson
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"A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid."

Alyssa Edwards
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"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place."

Otto Schily
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"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."

Philip Johnson
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"How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child."

Jacinda Ardern
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"Everything is a learning lesson, good and bad, so I am happy with the way things are, and I learned from everything negative. I am in a great space now, so I wouldn't change a thing!"

Karen Civil
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"Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him."

Fred Armisen
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"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

Saint Augustine
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"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

Florence Scovel Shinn
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"Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands."

Novak Djokovic
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"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

Brad Henry
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"I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around."

Victoria Beckham
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Orison Swett Marden
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

Steve Jobs
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"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

Ariel Durant
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"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."

Billy Graham
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"Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work."

Tara Stiles
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"Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family."

John James Audubon
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"It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness."

Jaden Smith
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"I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic."

Bryan Batt
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"The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience."

Lindsey Stirling
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"As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis."

Priscilla Presley
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"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Thomas Huxley
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"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."

Carrie Snow
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"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."

Bono
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"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness."

Bryant H. McGill
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"The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

Che Guevara
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"There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges."

John C. Mather
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"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

John Steinbeck
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"It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories."

Bonnie Blair
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"It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit."

Quentin Bryce
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"A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."

Howard Thurman
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"I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great."

Elena Vesnina
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"I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you."

Priyanka Chopra
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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."

Michel De Certeau
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"I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore."

Chris Pratt
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"On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver."

William Bartram
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"Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me."

Larry Wilcox
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"We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup."

Robbie Keane
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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

Joan Didion
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"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

Abraham Lincoln
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

Andrew Carnegie
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"It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures."

Nipsey Hussle
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"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

E. M. Forster
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"I was deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq with British Special Forces Units. I have great respect for the British military and the country as a whole, so I don't have anything negative to say about that."

Tim Kennedy
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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Charles Spurgeon
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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H. L. Mencken
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."

Roger de Rabutin
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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

Elbert Hubbard
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"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."

Demetri Martin
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"I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world."

Rihanna
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"A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people."

Barbara Corcoran
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"At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans."

Nostradamus
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"Great moments of entertainment, great football, unforgettable evenings. I think that's what it's all about: experience, emotions, and the special touch that the Champions League brings on and off the field."

Clarence Seedorf
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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

William Osler
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"I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy."

Ali Krieger
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"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

Leslie Caron
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell
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"Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn."

B. R. Hayden
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"It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months."

William Regal
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"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."

Aaron Sorkin
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"Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience."

Kevin Rudd
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"Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days."

Joel Osteen
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"College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school."

Judd Apatow
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"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort."

Humphry Davy
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"Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief."

Nostradamus
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"I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me."

Ice Cube
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"A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique."

Jidenna
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"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

Mark Twain
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"Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything."

Saint Teresa of Avila
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"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."

Francis Drake
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"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."

Mark Twain
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"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."

Cesare Lombroso
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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."

James Allen
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"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."

Robert H. Schuller
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"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."

Bill Gates
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"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

Lewis Mumford
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"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."

Robert Green Ingersoll
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"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

Larry McMurtry
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"Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration."

Charles Ives
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"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."

Paul Valery
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"We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it."

Jacqueline Winspear
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"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."

Bill Bradley
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus
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"Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation."

Mark Walport
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"For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them."

John Ortberg
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Maya Angelou
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"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."

Dieter Rams
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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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"A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy."

Vivica A. Fox
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"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."

Simon Sinek
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"If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did."

Gordon Ramsay
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"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."

Rainer Maria Rilke
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"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."

Homer
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"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."

Sallust
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"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow."

Orison Swett Marden
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"I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them."

Emma Roberts
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"I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment."

Mitski
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"Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things."

Jake Peavy
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"I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men."

Nikola Tesla
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"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber."

Robert Fulghum
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"I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it."

Faith Ringgold
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"The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I'm a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example."

Rand Paul
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"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. -Kareem Abdul"

Jabbar
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"I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'"

Billy Graham
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"The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach."

Henry Beston
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"A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked."

Danny Meyer
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."

Zhuangzi
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"I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds."

Debbie Ford
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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

Samuel Johnson
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"If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can."

David Brainerd
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton
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"If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass - and you get up each time - you will reach your destination."

Jonny Kim
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"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."

Vanessa Mae
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"The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test."

George W. Bush
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"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

Dick Gregory
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"I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it's so relaxing. It's also a great form of active recovery. It's perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit."

Eugenie Bouchard
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"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."

James Earl Jones
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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

Charlie Chaplin
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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."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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"When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny."

Miles Teller
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"Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart."

Rupert Murdoch
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"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

Bill Gates
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"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

Aeschylus
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"The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life."

Anna Letitia Barbauld
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"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off."

Carl Jung
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"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people."

Mitt Romney
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"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

Rita Rudner
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"By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen."

Edward Enninful
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"I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you."

Jacques Pepin
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"Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share."

Steve Harvey
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"Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life."

Gnash
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"I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another."

Blake Lively
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"Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred."

Yousef Munayyer
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"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

Stephen Leacock
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Queen Elizabeth II
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"Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!"

Max Stirner
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"Regardless of the great rivalry between Brazil and Argentina, one only rivals who he admires."

Tite
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"A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price."

Charlie Munger
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"When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions."

Poo Bear
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"It is great seeing the fruits of your labor. The joy I have in watching my daughters with their kids is great, because they're doing a wonderful job, and the kids are fantastic."

Billy Crystal
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"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."

Otto von Bismarck
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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."

D. H. Lawrence
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"People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"

Kanye West
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"I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person."

Tim Duncan
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"I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day."

Paul Henderson
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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."

Philip Glass
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"I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime."

Trey Anastasio
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"You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen."

Ben Carson
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"You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure."

Gordon B. Hinckley
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"Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'"

Tristan Wilds
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"Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me."

Kailash Kher
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"Behind every great athlete is a masterful coach that inspires the athlete to evolve into the strongest performer they can become."

Cathy Engelbert
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"Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern."

Edward Everett Hale
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"Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family."

Luke Bryan
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"I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction."

Jose Carreras
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"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."

Louis Kahn
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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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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."

Petrarch
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"Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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"There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst."

Frida Kahlo
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"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."

Daniel Webster
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"No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society."

Charles E. Wilson
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"You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living."

Terrell Owens
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"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky
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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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"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Francis Bacon
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"High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life."

Giancarlo Stanton
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"Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great."

Yani Tseng
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"I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side."

Jack Huston
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."

Henry James
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"I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts."

Octavio Paz
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"Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks. -Yo"

Yo Ma
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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Robert Benchley
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"We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy."

Lorraine Toussaint
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"The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people."

Jon Ronson
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"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

Wilma Rudolph
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"Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. -Jay"

Z
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"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader."

Indra Nooyi
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"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

Isoroku Yamamoto
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"Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle."

Theodore Zeldin
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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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"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."

Marilyn vos Savant
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"Being the captain is a great privilege and a responsibility to lead a great group with different cultures."

Sergio Ramos
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"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."

Blaise Pascal
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"I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve."

Tim Tebow
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"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

Rita Rudner
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"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

Meryl Streep
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"Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life."

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Dag Hammarskjold
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Lord Byron
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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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"We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government."

Zachary Quinto
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"Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to."

Willem Dafoe
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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

Georg Fabricius
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"I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy."

Jack Canfield
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"It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people."

Pamela Anderson
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"Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things."

David Suzuki
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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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"Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't."

Gerard Depardieu
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"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus
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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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"The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears."

Dan Stevens
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"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Lao Tzu
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"I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways."

Melanie Chisholm
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"Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'"

Quincy Jones
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"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."

E. B. White
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"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Horace Mann
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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

Anne Frank
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"A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too."

Bobby Berk
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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

Sydney Smith
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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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"Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike."

Justin Rosenstein
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"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."

Ralph Bunche
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"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason."

Jon Meacham
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"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."

Bill Gates
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"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it."

Danny Kaye
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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."

E. M. Forster
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"To become a great player, you've got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you've got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you've got to fight to make your dreams come true."

Sergio Ramos
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"A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes."

Danny Meyer
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"Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience."

LeRoy Neiman
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"People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google."

Evan Spiegel
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"Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues."

James Dobson
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

Rosalynn Carter
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"Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings."

Henry Cloud
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"The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his 'Make America Great Again' cap. I would ask him, 'When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?'"

Tech N9ne
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"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"

Edwin Markham
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"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

Ezra Pound
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"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

Elizabeth Hardwick
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"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

Andre Gide
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"If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse."

Cory Booker
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"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."

Irving Berlin
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"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers."

Herbert Hoover
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"Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool."

Janet Jackson
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"The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact."

Christine Tsai
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"Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness."

Muhammad Yunus
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"This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too."

Harlan Coben
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"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."

A. E. Housman
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"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."

Douglas MacArthur
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"My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work."

Gregor Mendel
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"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

Herbert Hoover
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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

Benjamin Disraeli
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"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it."

William Styron
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"Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes."

John Podhoretz
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."

Pythagoras
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"I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life."

Miranda Kerr
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"I truly believe greatness is achieved by stretching the limits of your mind, body, and soul."

Hakeen Olajuwon
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