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Dangers by being despised grow great. — Edmund Burke
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. — Bill Gates
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. — Heinrich Heine
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the… — Pablo Neruda
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people… — Mother Teresa
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason — Henry Fielding
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. — Mark Twain
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now.… — Sharon Stone
When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh!… — Helen Mirren
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it. — Emma Thompson
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. — Thomas Carlyle
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and… — Gary Snyder
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and… — Salman Rushdie
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman
All great men are play actors of their own ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me… — Rainer Maria Rilke
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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