- Political
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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
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020