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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Walton The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Sandburg The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Stanley Kubrick The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sydney Smith The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Oscar Wilde The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buffalo Bill 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)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Jacques BéNigne Bossuet The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
    Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
    French bishop and writer (1627 - 1704)
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  • John Updike 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.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Anthony Trollope The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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