#great man

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. ↗

— Rebecca West

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It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

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Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. ↗

— Gregory Peck

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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There was never a great man who had not a great mother. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

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By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. ↗

— James Dean

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