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• Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham
  American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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• Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

  Thomas Jefferson
  American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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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.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
  

  Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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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.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

  Bishop Westcott
   
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• Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Charles Kuralt
   
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• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

  Vincent Van Gogh
  Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

  Daisetz T. Suzuki
   
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• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
  

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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• Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

  Hitopadesa
  Indian text in Sanskrit
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• 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.

  Doctor Zhivago

  Boris Pasternak
  Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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• Grief is a process, not a state.

  Anne Grant
  Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• Growing old is not growing up.

  Doug Horton
  American Protestant clergyman
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Subjects in these quotes:

• gregariousness
• denunciations
• extraordinary
• deficiencies
• accomplished
• perseverance

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