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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) -
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Source: Speech of 24 june 1877 -
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.
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