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Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do. ↗

— Joe Henderson

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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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You can forgive yourself a great deal. ↗

— Eddie Albert

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I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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