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• I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

  Kid Rock

  Idiot

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

  W. G. Grace

  Mind, Half, Hitting

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• Great things only come with great effort.

  Art Briles

  Effort, Great Effort

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• If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

  C. S. Lewis

  Risk, Accomplish, Dies

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• If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Disappointing, Length

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Office, House

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• Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

  John Henry Newman

  Ideas, Done, Devotion

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2015). “Historical Sketches”, p.866, Aeterna Press

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• If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

  Henry Rollins

  Lost Love, Awful, September

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• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  Tim Ferriss

  Lonely, Ninety Nine, People

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• In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Dollars, Would Be

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• Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Expectations, Achieve

  "Jeb Bush Speaks Out". Education Next Interview, educationnext.org. November 12, 2014.

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• The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Art, Reflection, People

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• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  Euripides

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  Karel Capek

  Philosophy, Medicine, Gentleman

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Important, About Yourself

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• It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Imagination, Brain

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.28, Ravenio Books

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• It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

  Polly Adler

  Writing, College, Degrees

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.374, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

  Adam Clarke

  Fullness, Filled, Stills

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• The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

  Glenn Frey

  Looks, Aging, Young

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• When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Thinking, Childhood

  "Travel is nasty". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• In great things it is enough even to have willed.

  Propertius

  Enough

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• It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Roots, Facts

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• Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Before Death, Action, Accomplish

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• The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

  Nicholson Baker

  People, Upset, Want

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