Famous Quotes: Great

An index is a great leveller.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Most great records really start with the drums.
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It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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Love is a great beautifier.
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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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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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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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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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