- Business
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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
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. This means challenging the way things are done and then sharing the journey with others.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
- Passage
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- Nov 07, 2020
They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
- Great Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our justice system allows district attorneys to be charged with the great responsibility of prosecuting the very same police officers they work side-by-side with every day and whose union support they seek when running for reelection.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020