"A position of eminence makes a great person……" — Jean de la Bruyere

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• That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,… — Ben Jonson
• There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go… — Raymond E. Feist
• If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the… — Joseph Addison
• Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem. — Nicolas Chamfort
• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own… — Samuel Johnson
• Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can… — James Jeans
• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence,… — Charles Darwin
• Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one… — David George Hogarth
• It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation… — John Quincy Adams
• Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all… — Bruce R. McConkie
• The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. — George Meany

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