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Northrop Frye

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."

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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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"In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you."

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"He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama."

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"The excitement of opportunity and challenge inspires us to push for greatness."

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"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

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"You have All it takes to be Great, See the unseen, Give the Good in your hand now to Activate that Great Grace for Greatness."

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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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"There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation."

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"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."

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"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
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"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words."
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"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."
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"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object."
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"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."
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"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones."
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"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
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