Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 2660.
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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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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 greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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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 heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
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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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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 form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
The quotable Billy Graham (1966) -
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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