Quotes with great-grandfather

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  • Benjamin Franklin Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brad Feld Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Louisa May Alcott Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Frederick the Great Talents go by nature not by birth.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Carrie Snow Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
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  • Bruce Forsyth Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • George Santayana That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bode Miller That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Willa Cather That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Armstrong Williams That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Benny Goodman That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Lincoln That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Al Jarreau That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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