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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.


William Shakespeare
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.


William Shakespeare
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.


Thomas W. Higginson
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They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.
Jim Bakker
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.


Yousuf Karsh
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.


Abraham Lincoln
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.


Thomas Carlyle
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The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
Gustav Stresemann
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I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
Jed S. Rakoff
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I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.
Stan Musial
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Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
John James Audubon
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
James Woods
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.


Gerald R. Ford
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis
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Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.


Robert Dale Owen
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
Edmund Morgan
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Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.


Rebecca Harding Davis
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