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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Earnest

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

  Arthur Miller

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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• I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Believe, Heart

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Energy, Dresses, Way

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.

  George Michael

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Trying, Camels

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• The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Forgiving, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.46, Ignatius Press

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• I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

  Aidan Quinn

  Parting

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• In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Two, Giving, Add

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• When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Looks, Fit

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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• There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

  Po Bronson

  Powerful, Accomplish Your Goals, People

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• It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Common Sense, Politics

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• If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Running, War

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, October 5, 2011.

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• Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Dream, Positive Energy

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• LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

  Steve Jobs

  Important, Acid, Psychedelic

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, www.wired.com. 2011.

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• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Iron, Water

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• It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Important, Able

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Water

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

  Sara McMann

  Doors, Order, Things In Life

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• I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

  Sara McMann

  Believe, Doors, Order

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• You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion.

  Michael Chandler

  Believe, Fighting, Winning

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• It all comes down to confidence: your body can do great things only if it believes it can accomplish them.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Mma, Body

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• A lot of American shows don't last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.

  Matt Groening

  Cutting, Office, Long

  "Ricky Gervais goes to Springfield". Interview with Brian Viner, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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