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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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A great many
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A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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