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• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

  ― Michael Jackson
  American singer, dancer and composer (1958 - 2009)
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• The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

  ― Saul Alinsky
  American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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• The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

  ― Sydney Justin Harris
  American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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• The greatest Enemy That Man can have, is his Prosperity.

  Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel 13

  ― Samuel Daniel
  English poet (1562 - 1619)
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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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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 firmness is the greatest mercy.

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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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 general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  ― Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

  ― Benjamin Haydon
  British artist (1786 - 1846)
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• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  ― Barbara Mandrell
  American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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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 that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

  ― Anthony J. D'Angelo
  American writer
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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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