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“A great many skeptics are unfortunately put to waste, in that they vainly focus their energy on ridiculing a certain tiny denomination of Biblical fundamentalism, a denomination seated just one chair away from unbelief. They, the skeptics, cannot believe because they are the most literal of fundamentalists: of those who must interpret Scripture as simply an obsolete, absolutely dead compilation of intellectual incompetence. Nevertheless, by all means, because, after all, that is supposed to happen - Scripture states of itself that all thought and interpretation is folly without the Holy Spirit - however the ironic thing is the case in which one believes that the Bible is, in its true essence, completely outdated. And like flashes in a pan, he hints at his naivety, that he knows little about the world around him, little about those who live in it. Either that, or he knows little about what Scripture really says in relation to the world around him, little about what it really says in relation to those who live in it. It is as though he is the one dead to the world and it to him. He has not the Spirit to give life to his own spirit; he can only possibly understand Scripture as long-deceased rather than the modern world's very living narrative.”
Source: Healology
“A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.”
“A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.”
Source: The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers
“A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.”
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
“A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.”
“A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.”
Source: The cart and the horse
“A great meal is an experience that nourishes more than your body.”
Source: Delicious!
“A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.”
“A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.”
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels before a separation, it was like love in a country where there is a war, in a town where epidemics are raging. A strong love, from feeling close to death. Here death reigned, it was as if the town were the Museum of Death. ("The Dead Town")”
“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.”
“A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.”
Source: Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief
“A great mentor, a true architect of destiny, will show you how to walk through open doors like royalty. They will equip you with the tools of resilience and innovation. A good mentor will enable you to construct gateways to your dreams.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.”
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
“a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.”
“A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.”
“A great mind is just a great mind, and try not to worry too much about what package it's in.”
“A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“A great mind must be androgynous.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes
“A great mind without God is like a muscle car without a steering wheel. The only thing about it that’s fast is how quickly it totals itself.”
“A great mission by a great woman.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“A great mistake is committed when you stop learning from the day next to the day when you learnt from your biggest failure.”
“A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!”
“A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.”
“A great moment is made when knowledge can be shared; not disputed, fought over, opposed, or contested as to which version or perspective is greater, worthier, or more valuable.”
“A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.”
“a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.”
“A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.”
“A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.”
“A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught”
“A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.”
“A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.”
Source: Above the battle
“A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.”
“A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.”
“A great nation is also a great exporter of human feelings.”
Source: Plotless
“A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.”
Source: A little book in C major
“A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.”
“A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.”
“A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.”
“A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.”
“A great nose may be an index Of a great soul”
Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC
“A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”
“A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.”
“A great novel is worth one thousand films.”
“A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.”