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1113 Grand quotes by 869 unique authors
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I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to…
— Ani DiFranco
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years…
— Tommy Franks
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
— Thomas Jefferson
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No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought…
— Phillips Brooks
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
— Edward Abbey
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps,…
— Julian Barnes
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The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of…
— Bill Anderson
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In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,…
— Samuel Adams
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What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president.…
— George Washington
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Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are…
— Eugene V. Debs
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For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and…
— Pete Sampras
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When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm…
— Roger Federer
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Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand…
— Marat Safin
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Wimbledon is not the tournament I love. I don't like how they treat the players. There are small things that don't cost them anything and…
— Marat Safin
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The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat ... is represented by U.S. imperialism.
— Hugo Chavez
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To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
— Jim Lovell
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
— Douglas Brinkley
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To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved…
— Paul Watson
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the…
— Victor Hugo
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O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up…
— Abraham Coles
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Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her…
— Anne Rice
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