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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Quote by Jean-François Regnard about courage

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

Quote by Thomas J. Watson about people, enthusiasm, man

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about literature, fasting, writers, contentment, work, people

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.

Quote by Vincent Voiture about good luck, wealth, things

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about solitude

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, disaster, depression

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.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, life, hope, death, man

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about action, proudness, end, egoism, things, man

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time.

Quote by Luchino Visconti about opinion, boredom, time

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about word, feelings

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Quote by Nadia Boulanger about work, liberty

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Quote by James Abram Garfield about idea, war, world

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin about revelation, obstacles, ignorance, knowledge

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine about woman, things

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Quote by Jonas Edward Salk about ancestors, good, good luck

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

Quote by Michael Ende about time, thinking, life

Simplicity is a quality of great people.

Quote by George Muntean about simplicity, quality, people

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Quote by Willa Cather about happiness

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Quote by Willa Cather about love

I am confident that this world will survive even to the greatest egos.

Quote by Marius Torok about optimism, world