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3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

3 December 2020 Leon Trotsky

Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

3 December 2020 Ernie Harwell

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

3 December 2020 Euripides

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

3 December 2020 Steve Jobs

The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

3 December 2020 Zack de la Rocha

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

3 December 2020 Dan Gable

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

Irreligion – the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

3 December 2020 Alexander Pope

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

3 December 2020 Jan Peter Balkenende

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

3 December 2020 Humphry Davy

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

3 December 2020 Marc Chagall

Great art picks up where nature ends.

3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

3 December 2020 Tim Duncan

I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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