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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

Great Reality Detached Someone Only Attachment Attained Who Illusions

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus

Great Safety Every Enterprise Noble Against Stands Desire

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices. Theodore Dalrymple

Great Mistakes Past Own Our Considering Our Lives Recognize Scant Selected Attention Importance Make Does Versions Psychiatrists Psychologists Us Choices Painful Avoid Resentment Lives Receives Necessity Damage Presents

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle

Great Ambition Boredom Rather Got Exhaustion Than Die

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. William Ellery Channing

No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill

Great Crime Daring Excel

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. Louis L'Amour

Life Great Book Determination Great Book Great Life Idea Begins

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. Abraham Lincoln

Great Respect Great Respect Fellow Handy Little Mighty

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. Adam Sandler

Great Family Made Feeling Father's Day Everything Great Feeling Kids Pressured Must Guy Having Never He Feel Like Know Look Always His Did Mean Us Coolest Dad Twenty Started

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein

Great Me Indeed Pleasure See Gives Great Pleasure Stubbornness Incorrigible

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. Arthur Schopenhauer

As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster. Asa Hutchinson

Depression Great Key Recipe President Great Depression Signed Hoover Component Economic Recovery Outset Economic Recovery Disaster Learned Trade Tariff Vibrant After International International Trade Herbert Herbert Hoover

For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution. Bruce Rauner

Education Great Challenge Crime Face Poverty Every Solution Component Major Inequality Unemployment Productivity Income Income Inequality Growth Competitiveness

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Charles Dickens

Life Myself Great Heart Whatever Earnest Aims Thoroughly All My Heart Tried Small Well Devoted Always Been

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things. Charles Spurgeon

Great Gratitude Joy Own Our Tell Would Great Joy Remembering Sorrow How Done Story Conversion Little Used Deserve Things

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