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#great men

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Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.


Thomas Hood


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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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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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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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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.


John Drinkwater


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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


Alfred Einstein


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First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.


Vito Fossella


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I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.


Hugh Shelton


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