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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.


Joe Wurzelbacher


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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.


Leslie Stephen


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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.


Stephen Fry


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Great hopes make great men.


Thomas Fuller


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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.


Walter Savage Landor


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The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.


James Loeb


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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.


John Moody


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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.


V. S. Naipaul


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