“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
— Samuel Johnson
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The principles of living greatly include the
“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.”
— Thomas S. Monson
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The very greatest things – great thoughts,
“The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”
— Samuel Smiles
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The greatest discovery of all time is
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
— Oprah Winfrey
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The Great Depression, like most other periods
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
— Milton Friedman
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Human felicity is produced not as much
“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian,
“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.”
— Voltaire
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great
“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”
— Norman Cousins
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Great and good are seldom the same
“Great and good are seldom the same man.”
— Winston Churchill
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Any great warrior is also a scholar,
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”
— Steven Seagal
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