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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman on great

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato on great

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller on great

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford on great

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden on great

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham on great

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 on great

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah on great

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin on great

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller on great

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass on great

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus on great

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato on great

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James on great

The great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick Henry on great

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere on great

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey on great

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller on great

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato on great

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown on great