Quotes with truth-and-a-half

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  • Dorothy Parker Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • John Milton Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry van Dyke Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • C. S. Lewis Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bryan Batt Gray is great. People think gray is a neutral, but I think it's such a moody, intense, dramatic and sexy color. It's very sleek.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Adam Smith Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Winston Churchill Great and good are seldom the same man.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ann Veneman 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.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Great causes and little men go ill together.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell 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.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • I Ching Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benito Martinez Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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