Famous Quotes: Great

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
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I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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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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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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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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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.
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