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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Traffic was very, very free. It was great. – Jim Capaldi

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. – Jack Kerouac

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. – Thomas Keller

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. – Frida Kahlo

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. – Francis Bacon

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. – Denis Diderot

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. – Otto von Bismarck

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. – John Ruskin

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. – Thomas Fuller

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. – Calvin Coolidge

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley