How To Use Greatness In A Sentence
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All of its greatness, wideness , massiness and depth are alike with you very much.
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When women give up their souls to the ultimate colonization known as heteronormative existence, they lose their shot at greatness.
Women's Space
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Eleven score and thirteen years ago, a document was signed - it demanded greatness from a people and a place.
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By the glimmer of light lent me, I can but guess greatness and descry vagueness.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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That you know; and you know too, that she purchased her glory and her greatness not by faint-heartedness, but by choosing to suffer pain and incur dangers in the day of need.
Hellenica
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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When Sampras was taking his first steps to greatness, he had a small gang of hopefuls dogging his footsteps.
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Next came scores of Yeshiva students singing stirring songs about the greatness of the Torah.
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He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness.
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It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.
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A caricature of greatness despoils the memory.
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He may not always achieve greatness but at least he's a trier.
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The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
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Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over – greatness in one counsellor, or an over – strict combination in divers; which are things soon found, and holpen.
The Essays
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Another sign of greatness is his adeptness at acknowledging & handling faux pas as evident by his handling of the Crowley-Gates incidence.
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It is not an indispensable part of greatness.
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Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness.
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It is always a dream of greatness, not simply an ambition to succeed.
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Dyskolos you know a movie is destined for greatness when the cast includes Richard Burton and Ringo Starr beaglebot I just placed an order with one over our venders, over the phone, completely in verse beaglebot her response at the end.
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Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness.
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The problem with Pinot Noir is that it teases winemakers with greatness.
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He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.'
Moon Lore
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The ability to win the big ones is, of course, the mark of true greatness.
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It lacks the note of inevitableness which is the final touchstone of tragic greatness.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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So if among virtuous actions political and military actions are distinguished by nobility and greatness, and these are unleisurely and aim at an end and are not desirable for their own sake, but the activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in serious worth and to aim at no end beyond itself, and to have its pleasure proper to itself (and this augments the activity), and the self-sufficiency, leisureliness, unweariedness
The Nicomachean Ethics
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The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
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Through his mother's contacts, he acted as if he were born to greatness, whereas in truth he had to achieve it by his own indefatigable efforts.
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Amid the fisticuffs there's greatness, as we film junkies know.
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Their greatness can perhaps be best measured in terms of their permanence.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.
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An amoral society may have its advantages, but a fertile field for literary greatness is not one of them.
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I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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For some of us it is to be the best at our job and achieve greatness in our chosen field.
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Distorted, slurred vocals suggest greatness without having any inadequacies exposed.
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Andrea Costanti: classic wines needing aging to show their greatness.
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The Hurt Locker, the senses are stretched to a point of acute tension and wary, analytical alertness; but one facet of Bigelow's greatness is the way that this sort of subjective state, as well, can be seen, heard, and felt to overflow as a kind of nonsubjective sensorial immersion.
Warren Ellis
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He has aspirations to fame and greatness.
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There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Essays and Tales
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This is not barely affirmed, concerning these primitive Christians, but spoken of them as their high praise and encomium; as being a discovery of the refinedness, excellency, and greatness of their spirits, who could so far lift up themselves above sense and sensible things, as to place their highest and most vigorous love upon an unseen Object.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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Rewi Alley was a man whose greatness lies in his commonplaceness.
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Formerly slavery was looked upon as peculiarly pernicious to the diffusion of wealth and the progress of national greatness; now the South is intoxicated with ideas of the profitableness of slave labor, and the power of King Cotton in controlling the exchanges of the world.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
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Frankly, Shankly was the Liverpool manager who signed Keegan in 1971 for £35,000 from Scunthorpe, a legendary figure whose greatness it would be folly to contest before his one-time disciple.
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Neither the Lester version nor the new Donner Cut in their entireties have truly done justice to this idea, though there are many moments in both of these films that do approach the greatness of the story concept.
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A sleek camel coat adds up to style greatness this winter.
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a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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However, none of the people that day in the packed stadium knew that their brush with greatness was not the Bambino on the field but the bambino in the stands.
Justice Stevens became great by deeds, not design
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They also play with youth, plucked from the ranks and taught to seek and find greatness.
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While depression can inspire some people to greatness, the vast majority are knocked into useless turpitude, so it's no wonder that the left has been so bloody useless this year.
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They enjoy the same capacity for greatness and they suffer the same faults and foibles.
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Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit - for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love…
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For North - for Maga - union extends beyond the British isles to the empire as a whole: ‘the conception of the greatness and oneness of the Empire’.
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Education is the heart of human civilization, and the source of human creativity, power and greatness. Dr T.P.Chia
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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Decades later, the main protagonist of "Sawako Decides" is convinced not of the greatness of Imperial Japan, her community and herself but of their "averageness".
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The achievement of greatness through daring and adventurousness is intolerable to the mediocrities who malign him, as it reminds them they are parasitic worms.
Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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One can hope for greatness always, and yet remain humbled by the challenge of greatness.
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Palin is the ultimate celebutard, aspiring to the ditzy greatness of Paris Hilton.
Palin rejects allegations over legal defense fund
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NOW is the time for the current administration to continue to step up to the plate and lead America in the direction of greatness again and forget about all the babbling from the kids and move forward with the important issues at hand.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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The broad story of Capote's ascent to literary greatness and descent into decades of writer's block in that time is well known.
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Whatever his personal qualities, greatness inevitably accrues to such a man.
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Astronauts on the moon frequently connote intensional meaning, in the language of linguists greatness, honor, and patriotism.
Obama's View of Service, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.
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And those who were seemingly immortal in their event, like Moses, probably have the most to lose in that being beaten will tarnish the public's memories of their greatness.
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‘O Allah, I swear by Thy Greatness and Thy Glory, I meant not through my disobedience to transgress against Thee; for indeed I am not ignorant of Thee; but my fault is one Thou didst foreordain to me from eternity without beginning; 357 so do Thou pardon my transgression, for indeed I disobeyed Thee of my ignorance!’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The idea of a young country led by young men into new paths of prosperity and greatness was bound to appeal to many.
America Past and Present
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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It stems from a misguided perception that greatness is bestowed at birth and pours out onto the page like water, perfectly formed and written.
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As a symbol of Stein's greatness and a cue for the home fans to go mental, nothing beats the sight of that big silver pot.
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He had a great respect for the priesthood, and has left many a charming and sympathetic picture of the parish _cure_, such as l'Abbe Janvier in "Le Medecin de Campagne," who acts hand in hand with the good doctor Benassis, as an enlightened benefactor to the poor; or l'Abbe Bonnet, the hero of "Le Cure du Village," whose face had "the impress of faith, an impress giving the stamp of the human greatness which approaches most nearly to divine greatness, and of which the undefinable expression beautifies the most ordinary features.
Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
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Destined for academic greatness, Masters says he still had time to fool about at grammar school in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
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While their opening upon a margin manifested itself as greatness, their comportment off it provided visible evidence to all watching which as group they were unimpressive.
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Then, prove the greatness of your leadership by purging the party of all those who have failed to see that you are the physical embodiment of the party and the state.
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The third film of even planned trilogies is often a downer compared to the original, with The Return of the King (the final chapter in The Lord of the Rings cycle) being the most obvious example of this; it is a good film, just not the cinematic greatness Peter Jackson gave us with The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.
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They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.
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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Nelson Mandela
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Education is the heart of human civilization, and the source of human creativity, power and greatness. Dr T.P.Chia
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The easy (and evidently predictable) choice here for me would be Buffy but there’s an undeniable greatness in AHP as well.
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Aside from his literary and cultural contributions, I would also like to honor his strong political engagement where, as mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years, Aimé Césaire was an example for all Antillian politicians, an example of a politician who always governed with greatness for his ideas, for his fellow citizen, for his people and above all for a common purpose.
Remembering Aim�� C��saire
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It makes a mockery of any residual ambivalence about his claims to greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Has it finally dawned on you that your reputation as an entertainer - for the crowds and therefore, for the corporate moneybags - is fast overshadowing your greatness as a batsman?
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The argument speaks, therefore, of an unsurpassably great being - of a being whose greatness is not excelled by any being in any world.
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Though it would please me to think marrying outside my ethnic group has afforded my spawn a clearer shot at intellectual greatness, any mad 'brainiac' DNA my children might possess more likely arrives via their crazy, drunken, Mensa-smart goyishe grandfather than from their closest Ashkenazi kin.
Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means
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And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence!
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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Manchester United's greatness was an article of faith for him.
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He warrants only passing references, as if he were some also-ran in the race toward musical greatness.
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Rose seemed booted and spurred for greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps, then, Vergil's great epic does not aim only to magnify the greatness of Augustus' Rome but also to sound a note of caution or, even, warning.
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Neither insisting on the greatness of these writers nonetheless, nor attempting to reinterpret or literally retranslate them into contemporary idioms and assumptions will forestall this for long.
Canonical Writers
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St Paul's greatness is not, however, constituted by this rationalism -- for such we must term the arithmetical manipulation of the death of Jesus -- but by an entirely new appreciation of the Crucifixion.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.
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If one is reluctant to call him great, said Canetti, that is only because nothing could be more alien to him than greatness.
The Genius of Robert Walser
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The sublime is a concept that was first imagined in the first century AD by Longinus (but not really rediscovered until the sixteenth century), for whom the sublime was about greatness, loftiness, and elevation, inspiring awe and veneration.
Wunderkammern vs. Cabinets of Curiosity
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In the eyes of his contemporaries his military greatness was not in doubt.
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After her marriage, Ann Gilbert gave herself with all the sedulousness of her nature to the occupations of that more contracted sphere, in which she yet recognised a true moral greatness; striving therein, as far as in her lay, to live a life of "duty, praise and prayer.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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The statue is a lasting reminder of Churchill's greatness.
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It is not an indispensable part of greatness.
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Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
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With all her heart and soul, Mary magnified and glorified the Lord by proclaiming his greatness.
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The historical events which mothers take part in acquire the greatness and invincibility of natural phenomena.
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With that grit and patience and understanding of greatness required to reach that star level, conversely, the meteoritic rise and atmospheric flameouts of Hollywood one-hit wonders mimics the dangers of untethered space travel.
Daniel Radcliffe Talks Quitting Drinking Alcohol, Beating 'Child Star' Label
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The most obvious course for a politician tipped for greatness, yet hampered by a cherubic countenance and a light voice, would be to gain a reputation for solidity.
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Recognizing our own smallness can cause us to embrace God's greatness.
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If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman, it is enoughthe fact will prevail through the universe; but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
Preface to “Leaves of Grass,” 1855
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Manchester United's ambition is to assume greatness by winning several times a competition that Rangers are just privileged to be part of.
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In the beginning, Berry didn't seem destined for greatness.
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It may have often been placed on her table when Maintenon was paying the penalty of her hard-earned greatness by the painful task of endeavouring -- as she acknowledged -- to amuse a man who was no longer amusable.
The Idler in France
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Their star-studded dressing room are convinced they are a side on the verge of greatness.
The Sun
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Furthermore, so long as human greatness is not a pronounced feature in their religious beliefs, one may rightfully conclude that their crude religious agencies, rioting in impiousness and revelling in infamy, can never function that moral and spiritual potency required to regenerate the negro race.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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Rage has powered him to greatness as a footballer and rage has made a complete eejit of him.
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He was headed for a starred double-first, and seemed destined for greatness.
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If all the water of the oceans became ink, it will not be enough to write the Greatness of Allah.
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The greatness of a nation or a people is well judged by the manner it reacts and deals with calamities.
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In the same way Hawking, trapped in a crippled body, is physically ensnared but has mentally transcended this barrier to achieve greatness.
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Mademoiselle had just attempted to show her independence: tired of not being married, with a curse on the greatness which kept her astrand, she had made up her mind to a love-match.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness.
Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion
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But only a few of the tracks cohere into solid wholes; the rest leave the impression that they're on the threshold of greatness, but still skewed a few degrees in the wrong direction.
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Considered by many to be one of the strongest technical rikishi ever, Takanohana dominated the dohyo with an uncanny right-handed belt grip and an aggressive style that marked him for sumo greatness.
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They had the mark of onion ring greatness - keeping the breading intact when taking a bite.
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Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, achieved greatness as an American preacher-evangelist, principal of a college and revivalist.
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Miles Teller is teetering on the edge of greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their greatness can perhaps be best measured in terms of their permanence.
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But then comes a dish like the shredded-pork tamales in their red-chile cloak - or air-puffed sopaipillas that would only need slightly hotter frying oil to achieve greatness - and you know you're someplace real.
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Without experiment (without what in some ways could be called "progress" in the arts), art would ossify into dead monuments we are to extoll for their putative greatness but that would not provoke the kind of experiential engagement Dewey thinks is art's ultimate validation.
John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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The greatness and beauty of elite sport is that it allows individual brilliance to shine through.
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If the team are to grasp greatness it is time for attack to now take centre stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The track "Mykonos," from their 2008 EP Sun Giant, has some retro greatness going on.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Eighteen
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And so Basrans toil in the blazing heat of the Arabian Gulf, waiting for fate, kismet, providence, grace - or perhaps the more earthly mechanism of globalization - to inspire them to reclaim their former greatness.
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This book tells you nothing about the true greatness of his paintings.
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Elvis was a titan, a heroic everyman, an emblem of America's true greatness.
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The sums which they paid for livery and seizin attest the greatness of their possessions; and several estates have remained in their family since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Prokofiev conceived it ‘as a symphony of the greatness of human spirit’; a triumph of victory over adversity at the end of the Second World War.
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These three longhairs hinted at greatness on their first EP, but with this new joint they are clearly the ones to beat on the Canadian underground rock scene.
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The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul.
Ethics
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They are not referred to by name or by any identifying detail, but exist solely in order to convey the power and greatness of the zaddik.
Hasidic Hebrew Fiction: Portrayal of Women.
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It was in that prayerful atmosphere, as he pondered the greatness of the Lord and fixed his mind on God's love, that this writer felt as if he were being drawn into the inner chamber of the Lord.
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The duo's third album, Rubber Factory, is jammed with blues 'n' garage rock anthems that surely destine these rust belt heroes for global greatness.
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A woman's chastity is considered as her highest virtue and all Hindu traditional literature extols the greatness of a chaste woman.
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Was he mocking the idea of memorial greatness?
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Later, Aragorn can reinspire the Eomer-less Theoden to greatness-- a reinspiration that wouldn't have been nearly as dramatic had Theoden emerged from his encounter with Gandalf as confident as he did in the book.
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Reagan's greatness lies in that he clearly saw this monstrosity for what it was and relentlessly worked to defeat it.
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. Bob Marley
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10 He again wept the instability of human greatness; and his grief was imbittered by the hostile progress of the Turkmans, whom he had introduced into the heart of his Persian kingdom.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The dramatic ballades that Goerne chooses - Belsazar, Die beiden Granadiere, and Die LÃwenbraut - offer their greatness only very reluctantly.
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But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams.
The Prince's Pillows
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This country whose capacity for greatness is limitless cannot possibly also be the one that contains the most evil and socially-divergent people, can it?
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Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous; -- to be tamed in due time into the compact greatness, not giant-like, but godlike and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Their courtly coffins are ranged in a kind of hemicycle, with the little coffins of the children that died before they came to the knowledge of their greatness.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
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Perhaps we should make a distinction here between greatness and excellence.
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Her greatness as a writer is unquestioned.
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Greatness never departed the land, which was sea-girt, open to all, but also open to all the world's possibilities.
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Each and every one of us has been given tremendous potential for greatness by our Creator.
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For, in truth, he is not acting in his own interest but in that of a third person, who has yet to come into existence, albeit he is under the impression that he is acting in his own But it is this very _acting in some one else's interest_ which is everywhere the stamp of greatness and gives to passionate love the touch of the sublime, making it a worthy subject for the poet.
Essays of Schopenhauer
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He was a jet plane touching down in every city and burg from here to Harrisburg, carrying the message of the greatness of Napa Valley wine.
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The greatness of the game depends upon bowlers having their say.
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Rose seemed booted and spurred for greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this genre there is no praise of individual; it is a laudation of the collective Athenians, which is turned into an encomium of the greatness of the polis.
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The Buddha noticed the great fortresses that were being built by the Magadhan ministers in preparation for the coming war with the Vajjians, and prophesied the city’s future greatness.
Buddha
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My proposal is that we bring about a renaissance of Hinduism so that within its greatness which has been proven through many centuries we may reattain the past culture and civilization that we have lost.
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The chief proof of a man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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(My apologies to the true believers who would claim that Jesus, being God, was destined to the "post-mortem" greatness he achieved).
Tolstoy, Hayek, and David Brooks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In every way, the greatness of the deed and the thunderousness of the propaganda should be emphasized.
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He had kind speech for the many tribes, noted the greatness of Niblack to give such a feast, counselled for peace as was his custom, and at the end said that the quass was very good.
THE DEATH OF LIGOUN
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Despite the technology, you still need human talent and ingenuity to create a work of greatness.
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The Etruscans appear to have taken very great pains with the drainage of their cities; on many sites the cloaca are the only remains of their former industry and greatness which remain.
Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
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Jennie has some touch of that greatness; Dreiser is forever calling her "a big woman"; it is a refrain almost as irritating as the "trig" of "The Titan.
A Book of Prefaces
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Our admiration of 'em does not so much arise out of their Greatness as Uncommonness.
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This is no invention on the spur of the moment; nearly three years since, in a public discourse on the greatness of Aesculapius delivered by me during the first days of my residence at Oea, I made the same boast and recounted the number of the mysteries I knew.
The Defense
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He is celebrated as a restorer of Russian greatness.
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It is not an indispensable part of greatness.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough ... the fact will prevail through the universe ... but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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All because s/he knows where they're going, recognizes that "mundane" is the fate of a business filled with "normal," and has the cojones to flaunt the HR/MBA guidelines because of her/his burning desire to achieve greatness.
House rules
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Besides, Petaluma has never recognized greatness the larger-than-life figures who try to bring greatness to the city ... after all, Snoopy was ejected from the World Wrist Wrestling Championship to be held in Petaluma for lacking a thumb.
Paulson's last stadium deal fell apart (Jack Bog's Blog)
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With mucho dollars attesting to their greatness, brilliant tacticians of the business world were profiled in countless splashy news reports.
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Unlike Simba, she is not predestined for greatness.
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Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Nelson Mandela
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Moreover, they offer gifts in keeping with Christ's greatness: "gold, as to the great King; they offer up incense as to God, because it is used in the Divine Sacrifice; and myrrh, which is used in embalming the bodies of the dead, is offered as to Him who is to die for the salvation of all" (Gregory, Hom. x in Evang.).
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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God with any untruth; but what he calls deceiving, was only the concealing from him, when he accepted of the prophetical commission, the greatness of the evils which the execution of that commission was to bring upon him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
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Roman camp, where the greatness of their number was especially made evident by the long time they took in their march, for they were said to be six days continually going on in passing Marius’s fortifications; they marched pretty near, and revilingly asked the
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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The South Slav nationalists of the nineteenth century could also boast of medieval greatness under Slav rulers.
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It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied
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I confess that I am a huge, huge fan of the pop single, because I think pop is a genre that is congenitally predisposed to bands and artists that have one - but only one - shining moment of greatness in them.
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Her greatness lies in her deep understanding of human nature.
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This image of Bloom as traditionalist curmudgeon is considerably at odds with the impression one might have gotten from his critical writings of the 1970s and 1980s, in which Bloom advances his own intricate (if ultimately rather private, even hermetic) theory of literary production and reception that does indeed focus on poetic greatness but hardly defends tradition for tradition's sake.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and, most especially, Warhol rose to greatness through their mastery of serigraphy.
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Yet this tableau of horse-drawn omnibuses, coaches, carts, bicycles, and ubiquitous Cooks Tour advertisements is more than one of moment: it validates an epoch of Britain's prosperity and London's greatness.
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Your achievement reminds us of the potential for greatness that resides in every one of us.
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Thomas Jones Barker's The Secret of England's Greatness was exhibited in 1863 at the height of public support for the abolition of American slavery during the Civil War and proved popular as a mezzotint.
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Moreover, we cannot credit such selfishness on the part of such a man, or believe that he, to whom a grateful sovereign and country decerned every recompense in their power to bestow, would be so thankless to the men to whose sweat and blood he mainly owed his success -- to men who bore him, it may truly be said, upon their shoulders, to the highest pinnacle of greatness a British subject can possibly attain.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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Carmental Gate, which the Romans call anciently by that name in honour of the Nymph Carmentis, seer and soothsayer, who sang of old the coming greatness of the Aeneadae and the glory of Pallanteum.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Somehow, Marshall has developed the idea fomented by Sam himself, no doubt that Sam is on the verge of greatness, that his unique line of bull is, in fact, the truth, instead of delusional fantasies of how Sam would like to see his life.
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In that moment he rises above his stupid gianthood, and earnestly warns the Son of Light that all his power and eminence of priesthood, godhood, and kingship must stand or fall with the unbearable cold greatness of the incorruptible law-giver.
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring
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He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
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Making the game look easy and having time on the ball were always seen as measures of greatness.
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Audiences leap to their feet, they cheer, they sing, they stick on goofy ear-to-ear grins, and they all know they are privileged to be in the presence of greatness.
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Few have been more anxious to be remembered for having made important contributions to the greatness of the nation.
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And her humility, which was never equaled by that of any other woman, did not hinder her from seeing the great things that God had operated in her, as she herself proclaims in that sublime canticle which is the "Magna Charta" of the rights, the prerogatives and the greatness of woman.
Serious Hours of a Young Lady
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We have always said that our little country has within it the seeds of greatness.
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness in word, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and trying to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
