Quotes with greatness-great

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  • G.W.F. Hegel Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Frederick the Great An educated people can be easily governed.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Walter Bagehot An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Lee An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Rimbaud And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Bryant And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • William Shakespeare And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • William Cobbett Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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