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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Tacitus The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Ajay Devgan The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Anthony Burgess The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Nicholas Butler The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Byron Howard The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Boris Johnson The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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