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“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

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The mother is the child's supreme parent.

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All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

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The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

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Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…

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Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

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All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is…

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However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none…

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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his…

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“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

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“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

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“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.”

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A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of…

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My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense…

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