Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bud Grant Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carine Roitfeld People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bob Newhart People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Berenice Bejo People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Ann Druyan People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Eva Le Gallienne People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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