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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
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It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to watch the great players, the ones who are technically good and understand the game. I try to see how they move.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Men
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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.
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- Nov 07, 2020