“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.”
— Renata Adler
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”
— Marcus Garvey
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“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.”
— George W. Bush
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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
— George Eliot
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
— Thomas Huxley
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