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  • Milan Kundera All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All great peoples are conservative.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Napoleon Hill All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All great truths begin as blasphemies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Carl Bernstein All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Peter Carey All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great ages have been ages of belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Bragg All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Winston Churchill All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Wallace Stevens All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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