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Great Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
- For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
- Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.…
- I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe…
- [I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly…
- We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the…
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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