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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Victor Hugo History, Good, Great
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Victor Hugo Great, Man, Great Man
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Victor Hugo Women, Man, Great
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo Man, Great, Child
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Victor Hugo Great, Poetry, Language
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo Great, Man, Great Man
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo Architecture, Great, Thought
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8

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo Great, Small, Actions
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo Beauty, Light, Great
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr War, Great, Society
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr Love, Great, Hate
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Martin Luther King, Jr Great, Politics, Conflict
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson History, Great, World
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14

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Woodrow Wilson Leadership, Great, Identity
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson Education, Great, Science
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Woodrow Wilson Great, Men, Government
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17

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

Willie Nelson Great, Good, Ability
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I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Willie Nelson Time, Money, Great
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Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

Willie Nelson Great, Stand, Wherever
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20

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James History, Great, Philosophy
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21

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James Great, Us, Resources
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22

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James Great, Thinking, People
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23

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

William James Stress, Great, Thought
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats Great, Heart, Walk
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