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"Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time."

Renata Adler on Great

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  • "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

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  • "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

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  • "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

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  • "It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history."

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