Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 3717.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
Source: Sand and Foam (1926) -
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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