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184 Our Great quotes by 152 unique authors
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Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is…
— George Akerlof
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The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to…
— George Washington
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I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is…
— Jimmy Carter
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If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must…
— John F. Kennedy
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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or…
— James Harvey Robinson
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We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great…
— Strom Thurmond
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The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use…
— Unknown Author
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It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value…
— Jim Costa
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This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said the 7th generation…
— Unknown Author
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For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would…
— Anthony Gregory
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On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.
— Joseph J. Romm
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We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
— Agatha Christie
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What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
— Richard Rorty
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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
— Gore Vidal
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The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much…
— Robert Kennedy
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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…
— E. O. Wilson
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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
— Henri Barbusse
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O…
— Unknown Author
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I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny…
— Unknown Author
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Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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