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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII on great

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson on great

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle on great

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
Zack de la Rocha on great

All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle on great

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton on great

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats on great

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden on great

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli on great

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
Lance Armstrong on great

No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus on great

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle on great

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Steven Seagal on great

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle on great

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle on great

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle on great

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron White on great

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk on great

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia on great

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike on great