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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature
Francis Bacon

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Tragedies
Jacques Barzun

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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Controversy
Lyman Beecher

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
Power
Bible

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
Obstacles
Daniel J. Boorstin

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Churches
Thomas Carlyle

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The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
Victory
Chinese Proverb

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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Dress
Charles Dickens

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Reason
Henry Fielding

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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Constitutions
Gerald R. Ford

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Obstacles
Moliere

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Greatness
Charles De Montesquieu

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The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Uncategorised
Napoleon III

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Love
Friedrich Nietzsche

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All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Charles H. Parkhurst

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Life and Living
Pope John XXIII

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
Poverty and The Poor
Proverb

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Creativity
Carl Sandburg

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Curiosity
Arthur Schopenhauer

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All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
Controversy
Gilbert Seldes

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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Liberty
Seneca

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Business
Dylan Thomas

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
Work
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun