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Joe Theismann

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

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Honore de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

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Emma Goldman

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

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Zachary Quinto

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

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John Keats

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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Woody Allen

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

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Jean Claude Van Damme

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

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E. O. Wilson

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

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Edmund Burke

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

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Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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Edmund Burke

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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Earl Nightingale

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

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Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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Danica Patrick

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

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Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

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Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

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Martha Gellhorn

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

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Charles de Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

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Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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J. K. Rowling

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

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Sylvester Stallone

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

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Princess Diana

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

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M. Scott Peck

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

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Glenn Hughes

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

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John Hoeven

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

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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.

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Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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Margaret J. Wheatley

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

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Adam Schiff

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

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Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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Samuel Butler

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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Ernie Harwell

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

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Stevie Nicks

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

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William Osler

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

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Lewis Carroll

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

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Rita Rudner

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

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Lewis Thomas

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

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Thomas Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

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George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

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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.

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Victoria Woodhull

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

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