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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."
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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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"You can become great through the power of time."
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"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
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"It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great."
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"We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness."
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"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."
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"Greatness demands great courage."
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"Greatness is the flower of great adversity."
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"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
Equality
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
Genius
"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country."
War
"Life is to entered upon with courage."
Life
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
Health
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Society
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
War
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
Men
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
Men
"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
Business
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