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" The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. "

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" 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

" Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. "

" They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. "

Sarah Silverman

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

" My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis. "

" Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. "

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

" 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

" What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? "

Robert H. Schuller

" A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. "

Nadia Boulanger

" Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. "

" It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love. "

" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "

" 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

" The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears. "

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

" Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. "

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" When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. "

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" A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. "

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" The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. "

" One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. "

" Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. "

Washington Irving

" 'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us. "

" Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. "

" Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. "

" In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. "

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" Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. "

Albert Einstein