Quotes with great-sounding

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    Twelfth Night (1601)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Caleb Cushing Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Lao-Tzu Because of a great love, one is courageous.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Bae Doona Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
    Bae Doona
    South Korean actress and photographer (1979 - )
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  • Caroline Rhea Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
    Caroline Rhea
    Canadian–American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Margaret Fuller Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Kane Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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