Quotes 2401 till 2420 of 10331.
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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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.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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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.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Doctor Zhivago
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