#great men

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. ↗

— Vito Fossella

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I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

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Produce great men, the rest follows. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. ↗

— John Keegan

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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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