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4548 Greater quotes by 2699 unique authors
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I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be…
— Leyla Zana
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
— Aberjhani
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Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
— Samuel Johnson
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and…
— Jimmy Carter
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no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the…
— Sun Tzu
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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
— Sun Tzu
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If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.
— Bruce Barton
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When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.
— Jack Nicklaus
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The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.
— Phyllis Rose
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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon…
— Helen Keller
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Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to,…
— Bryan Adams
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A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you…
— Pete Carril
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The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.
— Frosty Westering
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment…
— Emile Durkheim
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
— J. William Fulbright
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