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He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.Dave Malloy
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When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.Mark Twain
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No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.Auliq Ice
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.Arthur Wellesley
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Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.Leslie Carroll