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" The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. "

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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. "

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" There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. "

Sojourner Truth

" I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.' "

" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "

" Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions. "

" My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. "

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

" At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need. "

" Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. "

" Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

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

" Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. "

" All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so. "

" I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer. "

" There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. "

" If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. "

" You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. "

" And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. "

" The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. "

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" The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. "

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" Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper. "

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" Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. "

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" Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. "

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" The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

" Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. "

" The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. "