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  • Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Epictetus The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sir William Osler The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bee Wilson The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Hesiod The half is greater than the whole.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Okri The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • David Hume The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
    On Suicide
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Jim Rohn The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Cardinal de Retz The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Aldous Huxley The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ann Macbeth The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Abu Bakr The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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