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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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My greatest fear: repetition. ↗

— Max Frisch

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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. ↗

— Garet Garrett

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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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