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The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66 -
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.
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The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
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The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
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