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" About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked. "

" A great artist is a great man in a great child. "

" A great man is always willing to be little. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. "

" A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. "

James Russell Lowell

" A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. "

" A great man is the man who does something for the first time. "

Alexander Smith

" Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. "

" Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive. "

" Behind every great man there is a suprised woman. "

" Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets. "

" Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. "

W. Clement Stone

" Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf. "

" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. "

John Drinkwater

" He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older. "

" He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. "

" Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. "

" I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. "

" I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns. "

" I don't know of any great man who ever had a great son. "

" I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage. "

" I have been a part of the teams which had the original great man - Sachin Tendulkar. I remember in 2007-08 tour of Australia, Sachin paaji would get all the attention from the locals. "

" I love being Bob Marley's son because he's a great man. "

" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "

Steven Spielberg

" In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. "

Honore de Balzac

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