#greater

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. ↗

— R. D. Laing

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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ↗

— Malcolm X

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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. ↗

— Michelangelo

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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ↗

— Ben Okri

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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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