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  • Antonio Villaraigosa The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Peter Carey The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robert Collier The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • William James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Jacques BéNigne Bossuet The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
    Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
    French bishop and writer (1627 - 1704)
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  • Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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