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"Greatness always inspires you to be great."

"Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality."

"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."

"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."

"It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully."
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"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."


"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."
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