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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Smiles Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arnold Bennett Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Balthazar Getty Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • William James Events are influenced by our very great desires.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Titus Livy Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Emma Goldman Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Willis Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Caroline Shaw Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Dewey Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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