A great man is one who leaves others at a loss aft... -Paul Valery

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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Valery , Poet
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At times I think and at times I am....
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other....
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly....
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through....
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well....
A poem is never finished, only abandoned....
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone....
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false....
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business....
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds....

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven....
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers....
I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main...
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities....
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept put...
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I...
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day....
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic....