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  • Baz Luhrmann If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Tillotson Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ben Bernanke Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Elizabeth Ashley In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • Edward O. Wilson In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
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  • Kriyananda In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • A. E. van Vogt In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Billy Joel In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Cat Stevens In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Gore Vidal In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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