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  • W.S. Landor Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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  • Desmond Tutu Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
    Speech 23-10-1998
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • Bob Riley Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Warren Buffett Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Fielding Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Victor Hugo Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Camille Paglia Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Chris Patten Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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