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“Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.”

Subjects Greatness Shapes England Faults British Despite Germany Present Day Worthiness

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.”

World Mind Heart Doe Careers Greatness Shapes Affection Flood

Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.”

Made Country America Past Decision Results Economy Fate Economic Policy Greatness Shapes Normal Over It Eighty Unreal Fads Quirks New Normal

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”

Men Believe Order Force I Believe Change Beauty Economic Greatness Produce Shapes Continuing Abstraction Exceptional Nobility Shifting Validity

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.”

Attitude Greatness Shapes Size Positive Attitude Eagles My Attitude Change Your Attitude

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.”

“The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.”

World Persons Use Form Magic Greatness Shapes Mortals Unfortunate Magician Refusal Poorest Forgetfulness Efficacy

Author:Cesar Aira