Famous Quotes: Great

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
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I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.
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I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
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You can't trust anybody with power.
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