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“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.”— Theodore Roosevelt
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“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”— Marcus Aurelius
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”— Anatole France
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.”— Richard Dawkins
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“I always entertain great hopes.”— Robert Frost
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”— Harriet Tubman
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“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”— Vincent Van Gogh
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“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”— Aristotle
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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”— Steve Jobs
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“I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”— Lord Byron
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“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”— Samuel Johnson
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“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”— George Eliot
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“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”— Albert Einstein
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“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.”— Samuel Johnson