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• A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

  Ernest Renan

  People, Together, Done

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• A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great thing; to give of one's self boundlessly, in order to find one's self richer, deeper, better.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Self, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

  Walt Whitman

  Greatness, Men, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.161, NYU Press

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• That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

  Dolly Parton

  Sex, Waiting, Sense Of Humor

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• No great thing happens suddenly.

  Rebecca West

  Change, Happens, Things Happen

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

  John Green

  Children, Thinking, Genius

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Doors, Perfect

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Horse, Heart

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• There are a lot of other parts on this team that do great things to make it easy for me to go out there.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Team, Nfl, Easy

  "Kaepernick stays focused on faith, winning". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I think fake boobs have done great things for real boobs. I think people finally appreciate real boobs. People like real boobs. I do. I also enjoy the fact that they are life-nourishers.

  Sarah Silverman

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Sarah Silverman talks boobs, and answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 23, 2014.

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• One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

  Charlie Huston

  Character, Artist, Average

  "Charlie Huston Talks About Creative Sacrifice In Writing Pulp Fiction". Interview With Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. September 15, 2007.

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• As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.

  Anthony Mackie

  Nice, Careers, Guy

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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• I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

  Donald Trump

  Teacher, Adversity, Thinking

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.

  Ray Winstone

  Real, Gun, Boys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

  Maeve Binchy

  Black And White, Getting Older, Used

  Maeve Binchy (2014). “Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words”, p.397, Knopf

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• The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

  Angela Thirkell

  Things In Life, Done, Able

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• If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.

  Larry Ellison

  Fighting, Support, Insane

  FT Interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

  Myrtle Reed

  Work, Blindness, Inseparable

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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• A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Done, Wells, Series

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• The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

  Steve Aylett

  Being Ignored, Speak, Impunity

  "Heart of the Original". Book by Steve Aylett, 2015.

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• The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Internet, Marketplace

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

  Eric Church

  Song, Play, Tanks

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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