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  • Andrew Marvell The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bono The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Lippmann The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bill Gates The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Walton The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Billy Connolly The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Camilla Belle The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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