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• 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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• 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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• The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

  ― Arthur Seyss-Inquart
   
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

  ― Edward F. Halifax
  British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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• 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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• 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.

  Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women

  ― Betty Friedan
  American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

  ― Rainer Maria Rilke
  German poet (1875 - 1926)
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• 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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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  ― Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

  ― Aesop
  Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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• 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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• The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

  ― George Herbert Allen
  American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-acceptance
• knights-errant
• courtesies
• vulnerable
• ignorance
• sponsored

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