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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.

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  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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