- Know
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
- Carbon Dioxide
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.
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- Nov 07, 2020