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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Caleb Cushing These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John Morley They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Lord George Byron They never fail who die in a great cause.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernard Pivot They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Frederick the Great They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Joseph Conrad They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
    Chance (1913)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • G. Chapman They're only truly great who are truly good.
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Al Capone This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Barry Eichengreen This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Dorothy Parker This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Plautus This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Adam Weishaupt This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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