Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 4570.
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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 photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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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.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Source: Speech of 24 june 1877 -
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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