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" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "

George Orwell

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" Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. "

" To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. "

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" Never was anything great achieved without danger. "

" A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. "

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

" There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. "

" 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'. "

" 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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" When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. "

" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "

" Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. "

" 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. "

" I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life. "

" Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. "

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

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

" I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.' "

" I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. "

" It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. "

" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

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

" 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. "

" The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored. "

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" As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. "