Great Quotes
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
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Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.
