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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  ― Carl Bernstein
  American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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• The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  ― Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
  

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  ― Robertson Davies
  Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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• The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
  

  ― Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

  ― Barbara de Angelis
  American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  ― Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

  ― Jeremy Bentham
  English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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• The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  ― Armstrong Williams
  American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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• The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

  ― R.D. Clyde
   
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• The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

  ― Bryant H. McGill
  American journalist and author (1969 - )
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• The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

  ― Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  ― Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.

  ― Friedrich Melchior Grimm
  German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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• The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

  ― Bell Hooks
  American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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• The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

  ― Stanley Kubrick
  American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
  American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• responsibility
• grandchildren
• indiscretions
• independence
• legislation
• accumulated

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