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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • G. Randolf Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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  • Rabindranath Tagore We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Eric Hoffer A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Otto von Bismarck A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
    Otto von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Alexander Cannon A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • H. Ross Perot Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Alfred Adler Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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