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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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  • Robert Frost Great events yield all but imperceptible effects.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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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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  • Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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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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  • Lord Chesterfield Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bob Seger Great sex is wonderful while it's happening, but who remembers great sex they had in 1983?
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Samuel Johnson Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Horowitz Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Beth Riesgraf Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
    Beth Riesgraf
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Beck Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Becki Newton 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.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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