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“The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.”

Lying Greatness Office Finals Incredibles Myth Presidency Breeding Indestructible

Book:The American Presidency

Source: The American Presidency

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”

Knows Men Needs Giving May Action Pain Lying Sleep Space Known Know How Changed Greatness Return Simplicity Driven Particles Exalted Blackness Fiery Outer Space Without Pain

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.”

Ends Lying Nations Path Economic Greatness Empires Aggression Dead Ends Militarism Prowess

Book:The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

Source: The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)

“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.”

Country Lying Sacrifice Greatness Expression Blessing Essence Enjoyed Willingness True Greatness Willingness To Sacrifice

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Knows Trying I Can Moments Body America Lying Force Nations Challenges Effort Careers Greatness Promise Harder Starting Privilege Deeper Your Body Shy Endeavor Dig Deep Troubled Times

Author:Barack Obama

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”

Men Lying Decision Conditions Greatness Stronger Lying Men Greatness Of Man

Author:Albert Camus