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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Aristotle A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Big thinking precedes great achievement.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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