Famous Quotes: Great

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
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Because of a great love, one is courageous.
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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