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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."
"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."
"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'."
"It is the success which makes great men."
"Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men."
"St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness."
"I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter."
"A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great."
"Great men exist that there might be greater men."
"Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste."
"There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know."
"One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time."
"A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it."
"A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more."
"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
"If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away."
"The hearts of great men can be changed."
