- Impossible
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had fantasies in the past of walking across America or some great distance, but it's such a commitment of time that it's stopped me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.
- Thinker
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020