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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Ben Foster It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Maya Angelou It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Arthur E. Morgan Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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  • Mark Twain Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Picabia Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Pablo Casals Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Sydney Smith Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Victor Hugo Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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