Quotes with greatest

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  • Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Plato Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Carlos Castaneda Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alex Cox Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor – unassisted.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Art Linkletter Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Freeman Dyson Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Dale Carnegie Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Smiles The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aldous Huxley The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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