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  • Carl von Clausewitz Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Charles Kuralt Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Jesse Jackson Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Steve Jobs Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Tacitus Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Black Elk Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
    Black Elk
     
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  • Kriyananda Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Virgil Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Cass Sunstein Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • John Lennon He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ada Leverson He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
    Source: Tenterhooks (1912) Ch. vii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Epictetus He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Elizabeth Barret Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
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  • Thomas à Kempis He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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