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We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.


Olive Schreiner

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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER To stand on the
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AYN RAND We had the tempo the way we wanted it. It was a great win against a great opponent.
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CECILIA BARTOLI It was such a beautiful day. The 18 athletes who went had a great experience, since we hadn't seen a...
GARY HEIDE There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve...
G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes ev...
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MARK MANDEL My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER We have reached great success here. We had an opportunity to serve the community and get a successfu...
DOMINIC GONCALVES And we felt like it was just a great romantic comedy world and a great office comedy.
AARON HARBERTS There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN People see what they want to see
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AL MONTOYA I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I nev...
WILLIAM HURT There was no discussion. It never came up. We hardly ever saw a black person.
BILL MYERS Personally and professionally, we had a great relationship. It was just a perfect fit. He shared a s...
BARRY LEVINSON To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
JOHN TILLOTSON To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
JOHN TILLOTSON To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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KENT BAER There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN That was a great shot, and, with her being a senior and playing like that the entire game, it is gre...
CALLIE OREBO To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We had a pretty good turnout. It was a great crowd for a great game.
KATHERINE OSMAN Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of o...
SANJAY DUTT Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...
MARK TWAIN There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN To be honest, I never imagined we'd get there. We had a great team, the best. I hope we showed every...
ICHIRO SUZUKI It was a wonderful time [making "The Partridge Family"] and I loved every minute of it. We had a gr...
SHIRLEY JONES It was a wonderful time [making "The Partridge Family"] and I loved every minute of it. We had a gre...
SHIRLEY JONES A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designe...
EDWARD EVERETT We've had our bird feeder smashed a couple of times, but we never saw what it was. We kind of figure...
DENNIS BAILEY We had some great individual efforts and it was a great game. They hit every shot.
MIKE D'ANTONI It was a great win because we turned it on when we had to. We just finally started hitting. It was a...
LARRY BIEBER It made sense. We already had employees there, and Pioneer Square is a great neighborhood.
MAY KULTHOL It's a great cause. I had a mother who died of cancer when I was young.
JOE SUSTERSIC It's upsetting (we lost) but it's great to be a part of a team that never gives up. Every team's goa...
GENTRY AFFHOLTER We had a wonderful time. It was a great experience.
MARILYN ROLFSMEYER We had great kids who improved as season went on. When you have great assistant coaches and great pl...
CURT BENGE Everything (we wanted) when we came into the game was there. I thought we had a great offensive game...
BRUCE CLARK We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.
ALFRED ROSENBERG It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.
BROTHER YUN An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You have the family of a homicide victim who is looking for justice and wants to see that suspect be...
BARBARA MILLER That was great that year, ... That was the most fun I've ever had. We had a great crew and it was a ...
BRIAN COREY The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got every...
DALE BUVID Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our ...
JOE WURZELBACHER There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN This race is so difficult, so hard to win. I can hardly believe we won it. But Chip gives us a great...
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DAKOTA TEFERTILLER As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a grea...
CLEVELAND ABBE It is an enormous leap - a bigger leap than we had wanted. The island was hoping to reform through e...
JENNIFER COCHRANE It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come a...
DAVE EDMUNDS There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
G. K. CHESTERTON He was actually an image pulled from our logo, and we had a contest to name him. We thought he would...
DON OSTROWSKY We had some fans ask for it and thought it was a good idea. You do whatever you can to make it a gre...
GARY FRIEDMAN It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. ...
WILLIAM POLLARD We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only ...
MARLEN RONTEN An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH We looked at the segment for Office Live and not only was there a great growth opportunity, there wa...
BARIS CETINOK I'm not a 15-year major leaguer who had success every day, but I'm not an A-ball guy who never made ...
BRETT JODIE We had a great opportunity and we missed it.
DONNIE EDWARDS Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talo...
MIKE GALLAGHER We had great mixing heights. We had great pressure gradients. We had great wind direction - and so w...
JOHN BYERS When a poor man makes a great statement,it becomes an ordinary quote,but when a great man makes an o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I felt outstanding. I felt great. I think the whole team felt great, ... It was really was an incred...
LEROY CAIN He is a man of great personal power, honor and honesty. I saw in him a really good man who would mak...
DENNIS HAYSBERT Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.
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