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If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
Stephen Hawking
Big
Before
Stars
Universe
Too
Other
Hundred
Rapidly
Thousand
Would
Rate
Had
Part
Smaller
Reached
Greater
Big Bang
Been
Hand
Expansion
Bang
Size
Form
After
Planets
Even
Million
Present
Second
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin
People
Medium
Favors
Small
Most
Return
Greater
Repay
Acknowledge
Ingratitude
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
Success
Beautiful
Wisdom
Good
Man
Mind
Power
More
Greater
Calmness
Becomes
His
Tranquil
Influence
Jewels
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
Saint Ignatius
Work
You
Soul
Peace
Grace
Try
Wish
Whatever
Enjoy
Virtue
Our
Our Lord
Able
Only
Higher
Greater
Ready
Always
Lord
Times
Than
Quiet
May
Different
Places
Your
Certainly
Different Places
Peace And Quiet
Different Times
Keep
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther
Men
Weak
Fellow
Well
Calling
Fellow Men
Greater
Than
Contribution
Done
Your
Help
Satisfaction
Serve
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham
Life
Great
Fight
Youth
Stream
Believe
Say
Dream
Through
True
Greater
End
Stand
Thing
Starry
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
Justice
Law
Tyranny
Name
Greater
Shield
Than
Which
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Rick Perry
God
Good
Strength
Strong
Own
Our
Weak
Out
Seek
My Own
Perfect
Imperfections
He
Instead
Greater
Greater Good
Limitations
Does
Am
His
Where
Shortcomings
Uses
Serve
Humbled
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
Adversity
Great
Man
Words
Matter
Endeavor
Field
Every
Benefit
Lies
Seed
Great Man
Magic
Known
Greater
Equivalent
Successful
Successful Man
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
Daisaku Ikeda
Hope
Heart
Courage
Compassion
Accident
Destroy
Highest
Disaster
Qualities
Greater
Tragic
Than
Human
Human Qualities
Even
Treasures
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism
Suffering
Power
State
Sum
More
Cruel
Wrong
Greater
Which
Founded
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
Wisdom
Our
Must
Prevent
Disasters
Call
Greater
Falling
Expect
Prudence
Energies
Sent
Forth
Us
Teach
Even
Defeats
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
Rose Kennedy
Hope
Mom
Great
Son
Mother
Challenge
Daughter
Greater
Than
Aspiration
Raising
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Sheri L. Dew
Leadership
Mother
Father
Leader
Important
Parenthood
More
Name
Greater
Than
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
St. Jerome
Justice
Other
Others
Virtues
Pleases
Pleasure
Possesses
Possessing
Someone
Give
Instead
Greater
Does
How
Than
May
Them
Ask
Who
Gratify
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.
Marcus Garvey
You
Injustice
Generation
Enemy
Dangerous
Will
Wilderness
Reckon
John
More
Only
Could
Know
Greater
Baptist
Appear
Whom
Present
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
Martha Washington
Happiness
Other
Our
Minds
Circumstances
Carry
Seeds
About
Misery
Part
Greater
Go
Depends
Wherever
Us
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Life
Death
Great
Sunrise
Life Is A
See
Greater
Should
Even
Why
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Living
More
Consumes
He
Part
Greater
His
Than
Getting
Who
Fatal
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
Peter Thiel
Success
Work
Good
You
Yourself
Key
Achieve
Job
Feeling
Ambition
Think
Key Thing
Develop
Talents
Well
Well Done
Greater
Test
Get
Done
Success Is
Your
Fully
Thing
What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brene Brown
People
Believe
Think
Risk
Feel
Greater
How
Am
Go
Who
Letting
Letting Go
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon Musk
Brainy
Collective
Sense
Strive
Only
Greater
Makes
The Only Thing
Really
Thing
Enlightenment
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
You
Yourself
Over
Greater
Than
Dominion
Less
Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.
Ravi Zacharias
Character
You
Peace
Become
Relationships
Way
Destroyer
Shall
Through
Greater
Builder
Said
Friendships
Authentic
Bridge
Things
Jesus
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking
Nothing
Universe
Something
Know
Greater
Exists
Than
Want
Why
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