- Hope
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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
- Rage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be a public servant to this great state, and I would like to leave everything on the field. Give 110 percent to the state, and we'll see where it takes me.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020