“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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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.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”
“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
“Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.”
“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”
“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.”
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
“The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”
“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”