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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Source: Pensees
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