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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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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 part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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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 part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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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
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