Quotes 581 till 600 of 851.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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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.
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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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The greatest mistake is the trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Source: Biographical Studies (1881) -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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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.
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The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
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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.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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