Quotes with not-so-great

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  • John Morley The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Voltaire The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Franklin Field The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
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  • Arthur Erickson The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Alvin Toffler The great growling engine of change - technology.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Blaine Lee The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
    Blaine Lee
     
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