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Friday, 10 October 2008

Daily Quote: "Life is a state of mind." (Warden, Jack - Life and Living)

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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

-- Young, Brigham | Greatness

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Greatness

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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

-- Hoffer, Eric | Greatness

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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.

-- Disraeli, Benjamin | Greatness

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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

-- Ruskin, John | Greatness

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

-- La Bruyere, Jean De | Greatness

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After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in school.

-- Hubbard, Kin | Greatness

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

-- Camus, Albert | Greatness

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

-- Carrel, Alexis | Greatness

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All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

-- Winfrey, Oprah | Greatness

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

-- Bowen, Elizabeth | Greatness

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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

-- Donne, John | Greatness

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Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

-- Shakespeare, William | Greatness

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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

-- Beaumarchais, Pierre De | Greatness

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Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

-- Truman, Harry S. | Greatness

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