Greatest Quotes
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
