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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Excellence
Charles Simmons

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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
Democracy
John Simon

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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Pessimism
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Focus
Sydney Smiles

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How many are the things I can do without!
Possessions
Socrates

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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
Wealth
Socrates

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Arts and Artists
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
Perfection
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Happiness
Freya Stark

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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
Imitation
Sir Richard Steele

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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens

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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Vision
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
World
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Knowledge
Tom Stoppard

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Business
Edwin H. Stuart

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Vision
Jonathan Swift

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Cities and City Life
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Forbidden things have a secret charm.
Scarcity
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Absence
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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In all things there is a law of cycles.
Cycles
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Age and Aging
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Opinions
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Charm
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Experience
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Ambition
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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