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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jules Ormont A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
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  • Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Simmons A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Thomas Fuller An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • William Shakespeare Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Denis Diderot Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boethius From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
    Path, motive, guide, original and end.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Great ideas originate in the muscles.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Fuller Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Allen Tate I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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