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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.
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.
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.
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.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
