Quotes with great-grandmother

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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bob Mould How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bum Phillips How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alexander the Great How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Horace How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Charles James Fox Humanity is the great leading feature of the mild and beneficent system of Christianity, and what has tended to render it such an inestimable blessing to mankind.
    rede van 17 april 1794
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Asa Gray I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Hobbes I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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