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If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
