Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 5767.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
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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.
Source: Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
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Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
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Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1990) 124 -
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face.
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
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