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“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”— Mark Twain
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”— Maya Angelou
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“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”— Anatole France
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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”— Albert Einstein
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“Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No man was ever great by imitation.”— Samuel Johnson
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“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”— Victor Hugo
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“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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“Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”— Oscar Wilde
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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”— Plato
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“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”— Christopher Hitchens
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“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.”— Francis Bacon
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“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”— Gore Vidal
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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 works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”— Samuel Johnson