Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 2174.

  • Abraham Lincoln The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Bern Williams The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • Alexander Chase The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Bill Gates The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Heinrich Heine The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Paxton Hood The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Hermann Hesse The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Candace Camp The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Orwell The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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