Quotes with greatness-great

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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Candice S. Miller Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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  • Carol P. Christ Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Carson McCullers Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    Source: The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
    Source: Second inaugural address
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Okri Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Our work is to present things that are as they are.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bud Grant Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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