“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”
— Og Mandino
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“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
— Plato
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“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
— Mark Twain
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“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Experience is a great teacher.”
— John Legend
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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.”
— Fareed Zakaria
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“He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.”
— Thomas Fuller
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