Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Bill Richardson President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Produce great men, the rest follows.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Smiles Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • William Hazlitt Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.
    Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), On the Conversations of Lords
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Pliny the Elder Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Matthew Arnold Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Carly Fiorina Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Carl Bernstein Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Francesco Petrarca Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • C. T. Studd Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
    Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd
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  • Anatole France Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Frederick the Great Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • George Santayana Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Alexander the Great Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Beatrice Webb Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Johnson Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Benedict Wong Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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