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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 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.
    ― Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • James Russell Lowell A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
    ― James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Alexander Smith A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
    ― Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • William James A great many
    people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.
    ― William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Deming A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
    ― Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Barbara Walters A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
    ― Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • John Henry Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
    ― John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Christopher Hampton 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
    ― Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
    ― Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ansel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
    ― Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Walter Bagehot A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    ― Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
    ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    ― John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Genet 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.
    ― Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Connolly 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.
    ― Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Source: The Conquest of Happiness
    ― Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George Meredith 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.
    ― George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Saadi 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.
    ― Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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