#great man

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love. ↗

— Tito Jackson

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Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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A great man is the man who does something for the first time. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. ↗

— Rebecca West

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It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. ↗

— John Ruskin

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