Famous Quotes: Great

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
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If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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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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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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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 battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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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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The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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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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