Quotes with not-so-great

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  • George Eliot Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benito Martinez Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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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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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John Adams Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
    Source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 19-05-1794
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Dylan Thomas Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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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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  • P. D. James Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Ezra Pound Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alan Cohen Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor Great men always pay deference to greater.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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