Confucius
Philosopher
"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others."
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Great Men
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Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Great men have great dogs."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"she smiled at him, and at her own fears."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Great men never require experience."
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"In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable."
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"God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place."
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"If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well."
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"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."
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"The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds."
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"Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything."
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"For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them."
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"Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning."
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"Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything."
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"Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."
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"For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade."
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"Only great men have great faults."
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"Great men can't be ruled."
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"All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent."
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"Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes"
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"A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it."
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"The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many."
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"There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'."
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"It is the success which makes great men."
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"Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men."
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