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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. – Karl Marx

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. – Winston Churchill

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. – Helen Keller

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. – William Shakespeare

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy

A great man is always willing to be little. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Half a truth is often a great lie. – Benjamin Franklin

To do a great right do a little wrong. – William Shakespeare

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. – Swami Vivekananda

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. – Douglas MacArthur

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. – Mahatma Gandhi

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. – Benjamin Franklin

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. – John Wooden

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan