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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
The God Delusion -
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
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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.
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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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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.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
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