Great Quotes
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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
Columbus Short
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I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.
A. J. Jacobs
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The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
Duffy Daugherty
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Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.
Adrian Rogers
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It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
Andy Serkis
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A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.
Cliff Chiang
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Now that I know about my great-great-grandfather, I feel that John Reid and I would have got on well together.
Anne Reid
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Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
Hakuin Ekaku
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Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.
Ole Hallesby
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We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.
Anna Friel
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
James Russell Lowell
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Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.
Francis Bacon
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I've got a great sense of humor.
Anthony Hopkins
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Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'
Martin Henderson
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People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.
Sadakat Kadri
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
Yann Martel
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I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.
Jasmine Guy
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In truth, it's not the shareholders of the American International Group who benefited most from its bailout; they were mostly wiped out. The great beneficiaries have been the creditors and counterparties at the other end of A.I.G.'s derivatives deals - firms like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays and UBS.
Tyler Cowen
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There is no illusion great than fear.
Lao Tzu
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner
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When I meet a woman, I don't think, 'Gee, I wonder if she's read the latest thesis by Stephen Hawking? I think, 'Great tits.'
Gene Simmons
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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
John Polkinghorne