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" The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. "

Cesare Lombroso

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" If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. "

" What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. "

" We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher. "

" As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. "

" Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. "

" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "

" Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. "

" You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things. "

" If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that. "

" 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. "

" First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great. "

" Every day is a great day for hockey. "

" Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it. "

" Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. "

" Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. "

" In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. "

" The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. "

" No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. "

Charles E. Wilson

" Life seeks life and loves life. The opening of a catkin of a willow, in the flight of the butterfly, in the chirping of a tree-toad or the sweep of an eagle - my life loves to see how others live, exults in their joy, and so far is partner in their great concern. "

Edward Everett Hale

" Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. "

William Shakespeare

" I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. "

" My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. "

" We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum. "

Cyrano de Bergerac

" While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. "

" Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. "

" Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable. "

" Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. "

George William Russell