Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • William Styron A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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  • Bob Gibson A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Walt Whitman A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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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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