Quotes with great-grandmother

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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • O. J. Simpson The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Flay The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Orwell The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Thomas J. Watson The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arnold Bennett The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Frank Dane The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Freya Stark The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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