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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Caleb Cushing These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Bruno Schulz Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John Morley They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Barry Switzer They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
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  • Lord George Byron They never fail who die in a great cause.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernard Pivot They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Frederick the Great They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Joseph Conrad They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
    Chance (1913)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • G. Chapman They're only truly great who are truly good.
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Confucius Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bo Bennett Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Al Capone This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Barry Eichengreen This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
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