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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. – Zack de la Rocha

All great peoples are conservative. – Thomas Carlyle

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. – Orison Swett Marden

No great thing is created suddenly. – Epictetus

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol. – Steven Seagal

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. – Thomas Carlyle

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. – James K. Polk

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. – Hypatia

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. – Albert Pike

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!! – Peter Hook

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. – Jane Austen

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. – Homer

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard