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"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
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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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Personal Development
"God created us to be great in our calling."
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Personal Development
"You can become great through the power of time."
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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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"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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"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."
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"Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life, it grows in the adversity of life."
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"Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society."
Society
"Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth."
American
"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
Power
"What is a society without a heroic dimension?"
Society
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
Woman
"I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?"
Money
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
Paradise
"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
Love
"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."
Challenge
"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself."
Greatness
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