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• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
  

  Aaron Sorkin
  American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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• Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.

  Bryan Batt
  American actor (1963 - )
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• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

  Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  Adam Smith
  Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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• Great and good are seldom the same man.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Great artists have no country.

  Alfred de Musset
  French writer (1810 - 1857)
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• Great artists suffer for the people.

  Marvin Gaye
  American singer and songwriter (1939 - 1984)
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• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

  Ann Veneman
  American politician (1949 - )
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• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  Arthur Erickson
  Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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• Great causes and little men go ill together.

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham
  American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus
  Greek historian (484 - 425)
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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell
  Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• increasingly
• disagreement
• improvements
• developments
• infectivity
• discoveries

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