It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact
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AMELIA BARR Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc...
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FEREIDOON YAZDI He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our help...
EDMUND BURKE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original v...
THEO JANSEN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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JOHN BUCHAN The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JAMES BUCHANAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
RUDOLF OTTO The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was m...
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CATHI FEELEY Be not afraid of greatness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the futu...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I saw that there is no Nature,
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ALBERTO CAEIRO The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT True greatness is measured by whether or not a man fulfils his purpose on earth. True greatness is n...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so...
JAMES C. MAXWELL We all have the potential to be great and the seed of greatness
SUNDAY ADELAJA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
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ALBERTO CAEIRO For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the...
ISMAIL KADARE Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factor...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of facto...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We r...
DENIS DIDEROT True greatness is not about money or fame. It is about becoming what you were born to be
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life an...
GERMANY KENT The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a c...
THOMAS ERNEST HULME By all means, let us study the great writers of the past for their own sakes, but let us study them ...
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH Reinventing yourself is not a definition someone gives to you but a strong personal conviction to gr...
JOHN CLEMENT OGHINAN The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other th...
JOHN STUART MILL All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Sometimes the shooting of it is extremely arduous, because it's not an exact science.
PETER JACKSON I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness o...
BROTHER LAWRENCE The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our ...
WILL SELF My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will ...
PIERRE TRUDEAU An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON To be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless...
LEMONY SNICKET To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to k...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nouri...
STEVE MARABOLI Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul
EDVARD MUNCH Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul...
EDVARD MUNCH Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunde...
ELBERT HUBBARD Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
WALTER SCOTT Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
CASSANDRA CLARE Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, we...
STEPHEN HALES The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself t...
BLAISE PASCAL In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
RICHARD BACH Give sometimes everything will be alright.
JENIL KANANI Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
SIR WALTER SCOTT We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of
greatness.
THOMAS CARLYLE In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve great...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The nature of Nature is change.
SHARON WEIL There is a great deal of probable cause to believe Mr. Burke is a primary suspect.
LINDA BOWMAN A potential is a hidden greatness. It is the success to be realized. It is an accomplishment yet to ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
ARISTOTLE This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON
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EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
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EDMUND BURKE Illustrious Predecessor.
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other.
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EDMUND BURKE Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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