- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
- Happy Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
- Exhibit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020