No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved,… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
I believe this is a mistake a great many of us are making; we are trying to do God's work with the… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there.… — Nasreddin Copy Share Image
“Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“system of Leviathan dominates. Right now, Leviathan is running a great many Christian groups. Leviathan is the system of this world. It… — Russell M. Stendal Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion,… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
“It seemed, however, that I had. I didn’t want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Nor did the Antarctic represent to Shackleton merely the grubby means to a financial end. In a very real sense he needed… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living... A part of eugenic politics would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Had opened a gallery I already had strong connections with New York, because I was taking work on consignment from New York… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
One of the major challenges for modern large-scale organizations - it's vital to find ways to mobilize the collective brainpower of people… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“We don’t do superstars in our Tough Mudder world—but if we were to, it would be hard to ignore the claims of… — Will Dean Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a great man without… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
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