Great Quotes
30510 Great quotes by 12163 unique authors
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned…
— Lucretia Mott
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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
— Anna Quindlen
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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal…
— Anita Roddick
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Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand…
— Bertrand Russell
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Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
— Hazel Scott
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great…
— Tecumseh
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make…
— Tecumseh
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Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that…
— Ten Bears
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He…
— Rebecca West
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for…
— U Thant
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just…
— Unknown Author
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We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great.
— Alex Morgan
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a…
— Salvador Dali
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -…
— David Lloyd George
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present…
— George Washington
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When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no…
— Bob Parsons
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination -…
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
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