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" Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. "

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" I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old. "

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

" There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army. "

" Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. "

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

" You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' "

" I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. "

" The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. "

" Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "

Self-Confidence

" The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! "

" Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. "

Washington Irving

" The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Life should be great rather than long. "

" Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. "

" For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books. "

" To have great poets, there must be great audiences. "

" All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident. "

" Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. "

" As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour. "

" Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. "

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

" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "

" 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

" My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. "

" Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. "

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" Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. "

Joseph B. Wirthlin

" I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished. "