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" Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. "

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" I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. "

Helen Keller

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" Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. "

William Ellery Channing

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" I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older. "

" But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. "

" Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. "

" Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything. "

" Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. "

" Spending time outdoors makes you feel great. "

" I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. "

" The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. "

" A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. "

" This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. "

John D. Rockefeller

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" It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. "

" Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. "

" We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. "

" I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride. "

" I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world. "

" Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge. "

" Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage. "

" All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. "

" Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses. "

" It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. "

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

" 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. "

" My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever. "

" The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. "

" If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. "

" The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. "

" If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff. "

" It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home. "

Alexander Graham Bell

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