“The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.”
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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.”
“The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.”
“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.”
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.”
“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.”
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
“What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.”
“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”
“Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.”
“I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.”
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.”
“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.”
“I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.”
“When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”
“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”
“I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.”
“The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.”
“The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.”
“I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.”