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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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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.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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The habit of courtesy, when once acquired, is almost impossible to get rid of.
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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 heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Source: The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
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