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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,… — Lord Acton
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. — Mao Zedong
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated… — David Herbert Donald
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern… — Mary Travers
Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in… — Timothy Findley
There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in turn alters the… — David Eisenberg
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great… — Cesare Lombroso
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young… — John Ruskin
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't… — Wilhelm Reich
Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him. — Ferruccio Lamborghini
The world cannot live at the level of its great men. — James G. Frazer
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding… — Marguerite Yourcenar
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew… — Bruce Catton
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You… — Joseph Murphy
I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great men of God… — Joseph Prince
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing. — V. S. Pritchett
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have… — Elias Lyman Magoon
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect… — Mary Midgley
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness… — Lucian

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