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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

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The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.

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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

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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 sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

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I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

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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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