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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw on great

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw on great

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal on great

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt on great

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost on great

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
Robert Frost on great

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James on great

An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw on great

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore Roosevelt on great

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins on great

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom Hanks on great

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven Wright on great

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
Honore de Balzac on great

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw on great

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron on great

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard on great

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard on great

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on great

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham on great

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates on great