A great book is like great evil.


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A great book is like great evil
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KELLY CLARKSON
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
LOUIS L'AMOUR
This book is great, the idea is great and her voice is great. She has tremendous talent.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you.
NED HEPBURN
A beautiful face can mask great evil...
FRANCINE RIVERS
This book is a great picture book of ideas for storage space in your home.
DELMA SMITH
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HOUSTON FANCHER
A good book is a great ingredient to an awesome time.
CHRISTOPHER PEAL
A great man once said that right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
LEMONY SNICKET
But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do gr...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER GREAT
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER GREAT
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
ALEXANDER GREAT
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ALEXANDER GREAT
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER GREAT
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER GREAT
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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ALEXANDER GREAT
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ALEXANDER GREAT
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
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I am one of the people who love the why of things
CATHERINE GREAT
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
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CATHERINE GREAT
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE GREAT
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe.
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GREAT BRITAIN
Once Bitten, Twice Shy.
GREAT WHITE
I don't have to have all of it, I had some, I'm happy.
GREAT APE
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GREAT BRITAIN
I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus ...
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The organisers have done a fantastic job all week given the volume of traffic we have in this countr...
GREAT BRITAIN
GET BACK IN YOUR CAVE.
GREAT BRITAIN
Life. It works better if your already smart.
GREAT APE
Why can't I think as well as I can see?
GREAT APE
I think, I am a thought, that can think. The most basic and at the same time the biggest thought pos...
GREAT APE
I don't want to have an opinion anymore. I can't please everyone, isn't that what they're for?
GREAT APE
It sounds like I'm already dead, I just don't know it yet.
GREAT APE
A fool and his money together again.
GREAT APE
I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE
Well we are monkeys, only our eeks and ahhs sound like P's and Q's
GREAT APE
And the oldest birds hunt when they can see.
GREAT APE
I don't gamble. I take chances. I don't play with money, I play with life as I know it.
GREAT APE
There's a big difference between making a change and making a million.
GREAT APE
Avenue Q
GREAT WHITE
The Angel Song.
GREAT WHITE
Our thoughts and prayers are with those that have passed away, those that are suffering and to the f...
GREAT WHITE
vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets.
GREAT BRITAIN
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GREAT BRITAIN
one country, two systems.
GREAT BRITAIN
we demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma.
GREAT BRITAIN
A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.
AMAN JASSAL
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
ADAM GRANT
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
DANNY KAYE
Every great brand is like a great story.
KEVIN PLANK
Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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KAREN SLOAN
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
What you don't know would make a great book.
SYDNEY SMITH
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RICHARD FLANAGAN
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LINDA HALL
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
JERRY B. JENKINS
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
ANTONI GAUDI
I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
[Regardless of its intentions,] A great book, ... is a book that has all the pertinent information, ...
CHARLES BLOOM
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NATALIE GOLDBERG
Truth is a great flirt.
FRANZ LISZT
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DEYTH BANGER
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
CHARLES SIMMONS
I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
CARLENE CARTER
That's a big day in anybody's book. He did a great job.
LEO VELEAS
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BRIAN HERBERT
Unification of differences is power.
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LA ROCHERFOUCAULD
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
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ASHISH KUMAR
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