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Quotes 17541 till 17560 of 25201.

• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  ― Walter Benjamin
  German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  ― Epictetus
  Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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• The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.

  ― Thomas Szasz
  American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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• 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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• The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

  ― Frederick the Great
  King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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• The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

  ― Ben Shapiro
  American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  ― Mother Teresa
  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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• 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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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  ― Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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• The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  ― Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
  

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  ― Robertson Davies
  Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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• The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
  

  ― Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

  ― Barbara de Angelis
  American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  ― Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

  ― Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  ― Armstrong Williams
  American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• unconditional
• uncritically
• tranquilizer
• overreaching
• thoroughness

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