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great Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins | great

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

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Calvin Coolidge great

Calvin Coolidge | great

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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great Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield | great

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

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great William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing | great

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

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Marya Mannes | great

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

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great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | great

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

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François de La Rochefoucauld great

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | great

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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François de La Rochefoucauld great

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | great

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

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François de La Rochefoucauld great

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | great

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

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Alexis de Tocqueville great

Alexis de Tocqueville | great

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

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