“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
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“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
“Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.”
“The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”
“What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.”
“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.”
“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.”
“A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.”
“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”
“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.”
“I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?”
“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.”
“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”
“The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.”
“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”
“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
“Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.”
“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.”
“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.”
“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.”
“I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.”
“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.”