Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arthur Machen Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Brad D. Smith Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • T. S. Eliot It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Blair Underwood It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Adam Sandler It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Benjamin Watson It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Henderson It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Anthony Trollope It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Santayana It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anthony de Mello It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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