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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

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He was as great as a man can be without morality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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30 November 2019

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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Jeff Bridges

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30 November 2019

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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.

Cher

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30 November 2019

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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30 November 2019

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I wear black skinny-fit jeans – I can’t get away from them. It’s funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

Shaun White

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30 November 2019

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

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30 November 2019

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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Horace

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30 November 2019

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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Laura Schlessinger

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30 November 2019

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Friedrich Schiller

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30 November 2019

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You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Dave Chappelle

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30 November 2019

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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Christopher Hitchens

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30 November 2019

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Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.

Alice Cooper

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30 November 2019

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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.

Danica McKellar

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30 November 2019

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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Horace

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30 November 2019

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So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Matthew Henry

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30 November 2019

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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.

Rosalynn Carter

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30 November 2019

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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

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30 November 2019

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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell

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30 November 2019

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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

James Madison

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