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4548 Greater quotes by 2699 unique authors
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We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
— Barack Obama
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for…
— William J. Clinton
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Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.
— Hal Borland
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There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a…
— Mary McCarthy
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
— Carl Jung
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The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the…
— Edgar Cayce
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than…
— Henry Fielding
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When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.
— Cesar Chavez
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How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
— Samuel Johnson
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
— Khalil Gibran
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greater man the greater courtesy.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to…
— John Stuart Mill
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right…
— Malcolm X
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We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by…
— James Madison
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
— Virginia Woolf
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