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3 December 2020 Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

3 December 2020 Plato

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

3 December 2020 Ellen G. White

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

No man was ever great by imitation.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause.

3 December 2020 Samuel Butler

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

3 December 2020 Pat Riley

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

3 December 2020 Barack Obama

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

3 December 2020 John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

3 December 2020 Lee Iacocca

My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

3 December 2020 Marya Mannes

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

3 December 2020 Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

3 December 2020 Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

3 December 2020 Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

3 December 2020 Noah Webster

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

3 December 2020 Lance Armstrong

Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.

3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

3 December 2020 Lil' Kim

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life – family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

3 December 2020 Plato

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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