Quotes with great-sounding

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  • Anatole France Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Frederick the Great Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • George Santayana Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Alexander the Great Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Beatrice Webb Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Samuel Johnson Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Benedict Wong Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Bono Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Rogues, would you live forever?
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Arthur Erickson Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Vinton Sammy Davis, I backed him up. I used to study him every night. I saw how great performers worked and was able to incorporate a little bit from the best.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Camilla Lackberg Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Adam Smith Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Pope John XXIII See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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