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  • Martha Washington I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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  • David Blaine I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Mark Twain I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alan Greenspan I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Harold Pinter I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Stephen Hawking I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
    Interview ABC News 7 June 2010
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Martha Washington I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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  • Buddha If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Adam Schiff If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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