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  • François Fénelon The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Ben Okri The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Seyss-Inquart The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.
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  • Susan B. Anthony The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Mark Twain The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Shashi Tharoor The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Aesop The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Francis Bacon The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Herbert Allen The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carl Lewis The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Brene Brown The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Seneca There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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