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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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A great many
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A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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