Quotes with over-great

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  • Alexander the Great If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Henry James If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Frederick the Great If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bryan Robson If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Oscar Wilde If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Paul Valery If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Kristol If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Brit Hume If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Virginia Woolf If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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