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" It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. "

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" I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old. "

" Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks. "

" I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story. "

" My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer. "

" I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. "

" Only great minds can afford a simple style. "

" I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' "

" The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. "

" To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace. "

" The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. "

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" One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman. "

" I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. "

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" There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. "

" I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. "

" A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. "

" Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. "

" I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another. "

" There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. "

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" The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. "

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" There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. "

" We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. "

" I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling. "

" Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up. "

" To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. "

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" How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. "

" Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. "

" All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. "

" There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges. "