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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Danger
Victor Hugo

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Ideas
Victor Hugo

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Happiness
Victor Hugo

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Competition
David Hume

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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Custom
David Hume

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Friends and Friendship
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness
Leigh Hunt

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Action
Francis Hutcheson

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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Knowledge
Thomas H. Huxley

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Action
Thomas H. Huxley

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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Science and Scientists
Thomas H. Huxley

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Failure
Thomas H. Huxley

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Opportunity
Lee Iacocca

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
Business
Lee Iacocca

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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Prayer
Ivan Illich

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Courage
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Purpose
Washington Irving

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Adversity
Washington Irving

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
Hope
Italian Proverb

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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Ideas
C. O. Jackson

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The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Education
Michael Jackson

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Literature
Henry James

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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Desire
William James

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Faith
William James

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Life and Living
William James

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun