Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Carl Bernstein The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robert Collier The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • William James The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • O. S. Hawkins The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.
    O. S. Hawkins
     
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Barbara Mandrell The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Saroyan The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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