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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything, Pleasures, Closely

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Disgust, Separated, Pleasures

Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush Limbaugh

History, Human, Humanity

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

Fail, Among, Sooner

We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking

Action, Value, Seek

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason

Time, Experience, Blessings

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison

Mind, Enjoy, Blessing

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Mind, Human, Distrust

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

Music, Writing, Words

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Donald Trump

Great, Job, Done

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

Minds, Capable, Virtues

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Life, Dreams, Good

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs

Deed, Intention, Smallest

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

Someone, Him, Beat

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music, Point, Whether

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore de Balzac

Mind, Human, Action

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon

Men, Best, Public

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diogenes

Good, Dogs, Rewards

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

Happiness, Wisdom, Fool

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko

Time, Human, Face

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
Robert H. Schuller

Good, Money, Rather

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
Prem Rawat

Life, Knowledge, Beautiful

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Best, Company, Advantage

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Art, Knowledge, Children

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin Powell

United, Relief, Efforts

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill

Forgive, Ability

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt

Love, Friendship, Strength

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
Jim Carrey

Love, Here, Actor

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

Character, Mind, Busy

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