Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
Yvette Clarke -
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius -
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo -
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Tambo -
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
Ian Williams Battles
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott -
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger -
You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
Wayne Rooney -
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Rafael Cruz -
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
Vicente Fox
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.
Taylor Mali -
Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
Abu Bakr -
The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.
Fran Tarkenton -
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian -
Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
Samuel Johnson
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Alfred North Whitehead -
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin -
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
Yasmina Khadra -
My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.
Kadir Nelson -
You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
Orson Scott Card -
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb