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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten — they look great, but they're not as memorable.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Cash — in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits — is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything — meals, jobs, clothing.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great — something where the residuals will go to the cause.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
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