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• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

  Jackie Stewart

  Men, Racing, Moss

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• Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

  Andre Gide

  Sympathy, Real, Ill

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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• A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Peace, People

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• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Dream, Art

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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• Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

  Matthew Henry

  Humility, Pride, Errors

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.8145, Harper Collins

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

  Edmund Burke

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

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• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

  Mencius

  Leadership, Men, Self

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• Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Understanding

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• Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Reality, Ifs And

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.97, Penguin

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• Know the great men of your age.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspiring, Motivation, Men

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• This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Other Cultures, Civilization, Leaving

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• Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into Mount Rushmore, minted into coins, and emblazoned in a place of honor in every school child's history text as a constant reminder of this great man's contributions to world freedom, national pride, and individual prosperity. With the truth, the term 'Reaganomics' will be used only as a term of endearment and respect.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, School, Pride

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• The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Children, Numbers

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• In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Men, Honorable

  "Poor Richard: An Almanack".

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, America, Prejudice

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• The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Doe, Firsts

  "Dreamthorp".

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• By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Spiritual, Character, Mean

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• The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

  C. S. Lewis

  Lonely, Men, Ideas

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  William Empson

  Reason Why, Impossible, Remember

  William Empson (1966). “Seven Types of Ambiguity”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

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