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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Politicians and Politics
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Sex
Nora Ephron

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No great thing is created suddenly.
Greatness
Epictetus

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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Discipline
Epictetus

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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
Wealth
Desiderius Erasmus

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Enthusiasm
Desiderius Erasmus

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Ideas
Morris L. Ernst

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The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Brevity
Francois FeNelon

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Reason
Henry Fielding

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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Worth
Henry Fielding

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Acting and Actors
Minnie Fiske

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Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Poetry and Poets
C. Fitzhugh

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Assets
Mary Parker Follet

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Happiness
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Difficulties
B. C. Forbes

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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Constitutions
Gerald R. Ford

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Writers and Writing
Edward M. Forster

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
Popularity
Fournier

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Belief
Anatole France

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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Detail
St. Francis De Sales

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Uncategorised
Felix Frankfurter

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Ignorance
Benjamin Franklin

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A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Neglect
Benjamin Franklin

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