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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"You can become great through the power of time."
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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 not a flower that grows in an easy life, it grows in the adversity of life."
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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 be great is not a word but work that makes a word."
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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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"Great men don't strive for greatness, theysimply do great works."
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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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"You want to be great? Help others achieve their greatness."
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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."
Beauty
"Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status."
Money
"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."
People
"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."
Art
"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."
Religion
"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."
Time
"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
Cultural
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Greatness
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