Famous Quotes: Great

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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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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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
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