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  • Pat Riley If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Plato Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bryant H. McGill In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Henry Fielding In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • J. William Fulbright In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Doris Lessing In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Adam Smith It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Rollo May It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Will Rogers It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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