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“Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.”

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Author:Tommy Barnett

“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.”

“There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.”

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Author:William Halsey

“A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.”

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Book:Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

Source: Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

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Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.”

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Book:Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

“There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.”

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Author:William Halsey