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• Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.

  Earl Hancock Ellis

  War, Marine, Men

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• A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

  David Suzuki

  Wise, Book, Tree

  David Suzuki, Wayne Grady (2007). “Tree: A Life Story”, p.9, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

  T. H. White

  Believe, Humble, Animal

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands.

  David Lloyd George

  Hope, Country, Time

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• For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “What Christians Believe”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.

  Charles G. Dawes

  Simple, Men, Simplicity

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• Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Men, Race

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• Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Excellence, Common

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

  Charlton Heston

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Speech, Indispensable

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.860, Best Books on

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• Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Men, Excellence, Ordinary

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• Behind every great man is a good brother.

  Nathan Followill

  Brother, Men, Behind Every Great Man

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• The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Men, Hands, He Man

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

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• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  Alfred Einstein

  Struggle, Animal, Men

  Alfred Einstein (1962). “Mozart, His Character, His Work”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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  A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

  Confucius

  Men, Small Man, Hard

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• Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him). He does not seek gain, but does not despise his followers who do. He struggles not for wealth, but does not take credit for leaving it alone... The ranks and emoluments of the world are to him no cause for joy, it's punishments and shame no cause for disgrace.

  Zhuangzi

  Struggle, Men, Joy

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hero, Men, Political

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• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes ... not the right steps. When motivating someone, they focus on strengths ... not on weaknesses. and When developing someone, they help him find the right fit ... not simply the next rung on the ladder.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Determination, Keys, Expectations

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Great men have always had dogs.

  Ouida

  Dog, Men, Pet

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• I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Numbers, People

  "Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium". Book by Carl Sagan, 1997.

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• If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Fall, Ambition, Men

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• Never did a great man hate good wine.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hate, Wine, Men

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