Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

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Lily Tomlin

We're all in this alone.

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Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

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George Gallup

I could prove God statistically.

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Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

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Rita Mae Brown

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.

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Joseph Conrad

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

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Cornelius Tacitus

I am my nearest neighbour.

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Jean Webster

It isn't the great pleasures that count the most it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

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