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3 December 2020 John Ruskin

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

3 December 2020 Joseph Henry

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

All great peoples are conservative.

3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

3 December 2020 Pope John XXIII

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

3 December 2020 Margot Fonteyn

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

3 December 2020 Jane Austen

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn’t have that experience.

3 December 2020 Donald Trump

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he’s going to do a great job.

3 December 2020 Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

3 December 2020 Aeschylus

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

3 December 2020 Haile Gebrselassie

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn’t feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

3 December 2020 Bill Maher

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

3 December 2020 Edmund Burke

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

3 December 2020 Jean Baudrillard

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

3 December 2020 Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

3 December 2020 Kip Winger

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

3 December 2020 Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

3 December 2020 Hugh Leonard

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

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