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A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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.
Elisha Cuthbert
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
Paulo Coelho
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de Balzac
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. Kennedy
