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  • Carine Roitfeld People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Berenice Bejo People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Ann Druyan People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Eva Le Gallienne People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Isaac Asimov People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bill Mumy Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Joseph Roux Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • John Keats Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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