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"I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me."	Adolf Hitler
"Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."	Albert Camus
"It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home."	Alvaro de Solva
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."	Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."	Aristotle
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."	Athenæus
"I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them."	Blaise Pascal
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"There is no real excellence in all this world Which can be separated from right living."	David Star Jordan
"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."	Edmund Burke
"If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed."	Edwin Holt Hughes
"There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place."	Francis Bacon
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown."	General Charles De Gaulle
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."	George Stanley McGovern
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."	Grover Cleveland
"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe."	Harry Gray
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."	Jesse Louis Jackson
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