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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Written by Robert Benchley
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Written by John F. Kennedy
I've had great success being a total idiot.
Written by Jerry Lewis
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Written by Clarence Darrow
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Written by Fred W. Friendly
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Written by Roger Ebert
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Written by Edmund Burke
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Written by Jane Austen
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Written by Blaine Lee
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Written by Gore Vidal
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Written by Willa Cather
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Written by Roger de Rabutin
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Written by Joseph Addison
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
Written by John Barrymore
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Written by Benjamin Jowett
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Written by Lao Tzu
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Written by Henri Matisse
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Written by Baltasar Gracian
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Written by Sydney Smith
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Written by Khalil Gibran
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Written by Henry Miller
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Written by Charles de Saint-Ã‰vremond
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Written by William James
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Written by William Hazlitt
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Written by Confucius
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Written by Carl Jung
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Written by George Chapman
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Written by Winston Churchill

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