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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire on great

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire on great

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on great

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina Jolie on great

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther on great

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson on great

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset on great

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk on great

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams on great

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn on great

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
Jose Rizal on great

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
Billy Graham on great

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire on great

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams on great

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on great

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen on great

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean on great

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm on great

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman on great

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley on great