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  • David Letterman New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill No crime is so great as daring to excel.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Lyman Beecher No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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  • Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aristotle No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Ruskin No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Milan Kundera No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Epictetus No great thing is created suddenly.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • John Ruskin No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • William E. Gladstone No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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