Quotes: great
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
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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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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) -
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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Great liars are also great magicians.
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Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
