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All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on… — Russell Baker
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. — Herbert V. Prochnow
Great men, like nature, use simple language. — Luc de Clapiers
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had… — Lenny Dykstra
Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record. — Roger Maris
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. — Ryan Phillippe
He was a great man. And he was also me. — Jeff Goldblum
The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the Arctic. It is not based… — Starhawk
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years — Julian Bond
Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as… — Aaron Tveit
Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man and let history make its own judgements. — Jonathan Frakes
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very… — Zosia Mamet
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won… — Eric Metaxas
I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable — Alfred Lansing
Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough… — Edward Abbey
For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. — Robert Benchley
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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