- Nothing
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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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
- Presence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
- Extensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
- Great Strain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
- Great Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great hope of society is in individual character.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020