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Definition: Greats: plural noun. Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average. An important or distinguished person. Very well; excellently.
Number of Quotes: 13

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
Douglas Adams

Years and years ago, I did a game based on Hitchhiker's Guide with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
Douglas Adams

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.
Scott Adams

Scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity.
Laudato Sí encyclical letter, June 18, 2015.
Francis I

That's great you got a new cat!
Mitchell Visser

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