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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake. ↗

— Walter Martin

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. ↗

— John Buchan

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century. ↗

— John Clayton

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