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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

Sandra Postel

You will go one on one with the Great One!

Dwayne Johnson

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Charles J. Ingersoll

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

Leonora Speyer

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us ,the storms and blessings of the earth. We learn to do what only the student of nature ever learns, and that is to feel beauty. We never rail at the storms, the furious winds ,the biting frosts and snows. To do so intensifies human futility, so whatever comes we should adjust ourselves by more effort and energy if necessary, but without complaint. Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the Great Mystery, and the Indian reveled in being close the the Great Holiness.

Chief Luther Standing Bear

The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."

William Greider

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

Tension is the great integrity.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Great things are done when men and mountains meet

William Blake

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

The news that Osama Bin Laden is dead will bring great relief to people across the world.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

Grover Cleveland

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense he is always satisfied with himself.

Napolon Bonaparte

Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business. If you have a business that\'s earning 20%-25% on equity, time is your friend. But time is your enemy if your money is in a low return business.

Warren Edward Buffett

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Santosh Kalwar

We are in a great night of the world. The thing is to know if we shall wake up to-morrow. We have only one succor we know of what the night is made. But shall we be able to impart our lucid faith, seeing that the heralds of warning are everywhere few, and that the greatest victims hate the only ideal which is not one, and call it utopian?

Henri Barbusse

Never allow the integrity of your own way of seeing things and saying things to be swamped by the influence of a master, however great.

George P. Lathrop

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.

Alfred A. Montapert

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