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184 Our Great quotes by 152 unique authors
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at…
— Pat Robertson
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Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all…
— Kevin Rudd
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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and…
— Patti Smith
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One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.
— Greg Graffin
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The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to…
— Geoff Mulgan
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To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one…
— Norah Vincent
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What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel…
— Alice Walker
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
— Bertrand Russell
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In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or…
— George R. R. Martin
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The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
— Daniel Handler
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Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the…
— Simone Weil
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Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
— George R. R. Martin
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I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
— Bertrand Russell
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have…
— Mitch Albom
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a…
— C.S. Lewis
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This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.
— Maureen Johnson
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There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
— Samuel Johnson
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