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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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"The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in."


"Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?"


"The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."


"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."


"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."
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