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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers all making believe as hard as they can.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well – to be a great father to be a good husband to be a good lover you know to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze friendly almost gentle.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.