"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him."

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Source : Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

Margot Asquith

#Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.”
“My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.”
“Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.”
“We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.”
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.”
“I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House. The president has a very good idea of the people that are undermining his agenda that are serving their own interests.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.”

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