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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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Personal Development
"Greatness begins where mediocrity ends."
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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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"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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"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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"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
"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
"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
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book."
Greatness
"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
"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
Cultural
"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
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