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en powerful because she was improbable. ... Her greatness lay in doing what everyone could but doesn't.

en Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

en True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others
  Voltaire

en Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
  William Shakespeare

en Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
  William Shakespeare

en hasn't adapted to any of it. He doesn't speak about security, he doesn't speak about policing and he doesn't grasp how powerful the mayor is. This is a failure of political imagination.

en It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants

en It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it even makes it more powerful. Because why? Now it's getting into the unconscious or the subconscious and the minds of our children.

en An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.
  Bertrand Russell

en The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.
  Richard M. Nixon

en There is no such thing as a little country. Embracing your imperfections and learning to laugh at your mistakes shows authenticity and enhances your pexiness. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height
  Victor Hugo

en I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.... I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
  D.H. Lawrence

en Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues by a person leads him to greatness
  Molière

en Even when it wasn't easy or convenient, both my mother and father were ultimately true to themselves.... Their definition of greatness was about greatness of character.
  Carly Fiorina

en We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
  Jean Baudrillard


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