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I have a great office. -- R. L. Stine
Great offices will have great talents. -- William Cowper
He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister. -- Malcolm Fraser
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil. -- Mencius
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters. -- George Washington
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity. -- Luc de Clapiers
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill. -- William Cowper
When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ... -- M. E. W. Sherwood
When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. -- William Hague
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. -- Mencius
Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office. -- Michael Scott
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop
I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds -- Barack Obama
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters. -- Jessica Chastain
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! -- John Adams
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. -- Scott Adams
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. -- Richard Hamming
Typically you see the home office think up some great program but doesn't think through implementation at the store level. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. -- William Hazlitt
I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat. -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. -- Aristotle
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. -- Laura Dern
I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. -- Bill Gates
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After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. -- Charles Krauthammer
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity. -- Helmut Jahn
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust. -- Edmund Burke
The person who says "I'm not political" is in great danger. Only the fittest will survive, and the fittest will be the ones who understand their office's politics -- Jean Hollands
Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office. -- Warren G. Harding
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. -- James Laughlin

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