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  • Ansel Adams A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Walter Bagehot A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bertrand Russell A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George Meredith A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Susan Sontag A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Anne Bronte A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Saadi A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • James Monroe A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
    James Monroe
    US President (5th) (1758 - 1831)
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  • Woodrow Wilson A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A little neglect may breed great mischief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Billy Eichner A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Bill Flores A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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