"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people."
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"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
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"Superman don't need no seat belt."
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"Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness."
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"Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness."
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"Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness."
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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
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"There is greatness in everyone."
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"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?"
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"A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once."
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"Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?"
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"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself."
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"Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations."
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"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."
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"Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."
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"Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit."
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"Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."
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"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it."
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"Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside"
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"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."
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