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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961) -
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
On War (1832) -
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Doctor Zhivago -
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
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Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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