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"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."
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"Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim."
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"The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth."
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"All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught."
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"Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though."
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"When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter."
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"Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do."
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"Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning."
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"Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory."
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"Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow."
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"I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away."
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"When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you."
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"Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world"
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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."
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"The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations."
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"God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts."
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"The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness."
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"In your hands you hold the seeds of failure - or the potential for greatness."
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"I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women."
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