Quotes about Great
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Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
God is love, and His law is love. Its two great principles are love to God and love to man.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
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.
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
It's a great feeling to be recognized for all the hard work that I've put in.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.
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