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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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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.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
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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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.
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Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
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