Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 4570.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130 -
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
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Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
Faceboek (2012) -
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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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.
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Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
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