Famous Quotes: Great

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Great hopes make great men.
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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
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I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
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