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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Denis Waitley No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Edmund Burke Nobody made ??a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Henry Fielding Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Molière Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Vikram Seth Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
    Een geschikte jongen (1993) 609
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Michael Korda One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Alexander Chase One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Margaret Drabble Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Bridget Riley Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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  • Campbell Brown Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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