"So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN."
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"We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends."
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"Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin."
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"In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers."
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"The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect."
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"The greatness of the human being is not in the reincarnation of the world but in the reincarnation of ourselves."
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"The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel."
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"It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness."
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"Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness."
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"To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands."
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"Failing is another stepping-stone to greatness."
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"Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others."
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"Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness."
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"The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119"
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"A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production."
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"I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics."
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"Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world."
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"All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling."
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"All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it."
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"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones."
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