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  • I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
  • For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
  • What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
  • Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
  • The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
  • Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
  • I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
  • Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
  • I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Aristotle A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Big thinking precedes great achievement.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Alexander the Great There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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