Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stendhal The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
    Source: Sand and Foam (1926)
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Kate Millet The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • David Sarnoff The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bono The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Stanley Kubrick The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Frederic Raphael The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are balancing and compensating factors that correspond to the problems which life confronts us with in reality. This is not matter for astonishment, since these images are deposits of thousands of years of experience of the struggle for existence and for adaptation.
    Source: Psychological Types (1921)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Napoleon The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Billy Graham The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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