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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman
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.
George Eliot
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie
A great man is always willing to be little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Robert Frost
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon
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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
