Quotes with great-grandmother

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb
    Long way to freedom
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Barbara Olson Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Lao-Tzu All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Maya Angelou All great achievements require time.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • David J. Schwartz All great achievements require time.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Ezra Pound All great art is born of the metropolis.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • Ronald Reagan All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
    Speech, 11-01-1989
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Albert Camus All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Gilbert Seldes All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
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  • Alexis Carrel All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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