Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Brendan Myers Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • D'Avenant Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
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  • Baltasar Gracian Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bob Mould How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Bum Phillips How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alexander the Great How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Horace How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Blaise Pascal How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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