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A great person
is one who affects the mind of their generation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Man is only
truly great when he acts from his passions.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
At most, the
greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men
of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for
ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of
the world that they contribute something to the sustentation
of the whole.
-- John Donne
1572-1632, British
Metaphysical Poet
I can write
good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply,
and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.
-- Adam Duritz
1965-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter
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Despite
everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just
gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on.
Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop
for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
-- Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician,
Singer, Songwriter
The search
after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most
serious occupation of manhood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
To be great is
to be misunderstood.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The measure of
a master is his success in bringing all men around to his
opinion twenty years later.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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