#great

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly. ↗

— George Crook

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Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete. ↗

— Usain Bolt

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Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. ↗

— Frank Woolley

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The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. ↗

— Bono

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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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