Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2159.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
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There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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