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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

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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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You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

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The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

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The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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Superman don't need no seat belt.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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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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You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

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I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

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Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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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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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

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In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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The German countryside must be preserved under all circumstances, for it is and has forever been the source of strength and greatness of our people.

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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

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