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It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power-specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power (Great Men Quotes)
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does (Great Men Quotes)
The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you (Great Men Quotes)
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion (Great Men Quotes)
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage (Great Men Quotes)
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets (Great Men Quotes)
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? (Great Men Quotes)
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things (Great Men Quotes)
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes (Great Men Quotes)
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man’s life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we, and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being (Great Men Quotes)
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble (Great Men Quotes)
As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror (Great Men Quotes)
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain (Great Men Quotes)
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine (Great Men Quotes)
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect (Great Men Quotes)
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians (Great Men Quotes)
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known (Great Men Quotes)
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means (Great Men Quotes)
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well! (Great Men Quotes)
Don’t be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody (Great Men Quotes)
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit (Great Men Quotes)
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again (Great Men Quotes)
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy (Great Men Quotes)
A great man’s manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste (Great Men Quotes)
We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come (Great Men Quotes)
We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify (Great Men Quotes)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word (Great Men Quotes)
A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness (Great Men Quotes)
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other (Great Men Quotes)
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that’s a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it (Great Men Quotes)