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A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it wi

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. – John Ruskin

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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. – John Ruskin

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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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He was as great as a man can be without morality. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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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

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman

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The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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Human beings crave freedom at their core. – John Ensign

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I dont necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. Its caring about something thats utterly meaningless. – Harlan Coben

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